Re: [PATCH] sparc64: use unsigned long long for u64

[Ken Chen]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> wait, why does this need to be changed?
>
> We have:
>        clocksource_tick.read = tick_ops->get_tick;
>
> And clocksource_tick is of type clocksource:
>
> struct clocksource {
>        ...
>        cycle_t (*read)(void);
>
> And cycle_t is:
> /* clocksource cycle base type */
> typedef u64 cycle_t;
>
> And u64 is now:
> unsigned long long - thus we need to fix prototype
> of get_tick to fix the warnings.
>
> A cast could do it - but fixing the real problem
> is better here.

Sounds good to me.  It was just a question.  Thank you for the explanation.

- Ken
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