Re: [PATCH] proc: make struct proc_dir_entry::namelen unsigned int

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Mar 09 2011 - 18:03:15 EST


On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 12:54:28 +0200
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Space is not really conserved, because of natural alignment for the next field.
> sizeof(struct proc_dir_entry) remains the same.
>

What is the reason for this patch??

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