Re: [PATCH] Handle CONFIG_LBD and CONFIG_LSF in one place

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Apr 27 2006 - 01:20:28 EST


Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 06:34:42PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > CONFIG_LBD and CONFIG_LSF are spread into asm/types.h for no particularly
> > > good reason. Centralising the definition in linux/types.h means that arch
> > > maintainers don't need to bother adding it, as well as fixing the problem
> > > with x86-64 users being asked to make a decision that has absolutely no
> > > effect. The H8/300 porters seem particularly confused since I'm not aware
> > > of any microcontrollers that need to support 2TB filesystems these days.
> >
> > x86_64:
> >
> > include/linux/types.h:137: error: conflicting types for 'sector_t'
> > include/asm/types.h:51: error: previous declaration of 'sector_t' was here
>
> is the conflicting patch available somewhere so i can put a patch in for
> it?

I don't think there was any conflicting patch. I have no other patches
touching include/linux/types.h or include/asm-x86_64/types.h.

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