Re: 64bit clean drivers was Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre1

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 11:28:49 EST


Alan Cox wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 12:56, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
>>Can you please shortly explain what will not be maintainable with my
>>proposal?

> If you think you can do it all nicely with dep_ and not if then prove me
> wrong. I'd actually like to see a working clean implementation because I
> agree about the problem, I'm dubious that the cure right now is better
> than the disease

What I did in the past for alpha was go through source and add something
like

        #if BITS_PER_LONG != 32
        #error this file is broken for 64-bits
        #endif

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