On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 11:37:06PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
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> 
> On Aug 7 2007 13:43, Greg KH wrote:
> >
> >added this 64-bit bug:
> >
> >        ....
> >	unsigned int flags;
> >
> > 	spin_lock_irqsave(&task->lock, flags);
> >        ....
> >
> >irq 'flags' must be unsigned long, not unsigned int. The -rt tree has
> >strict checks about this on 64-bit so this triggered a build failure.
> 
> Since the check is a compile-time one, would not it be good to add
> it to the regular linux tree too?

BUILD_BUG_ON was tried, but due to amazingly wrong moment of merging
survived only for a day or so. There will be a second try, though.

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