[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 10/10] ocfs2: Handle different f_version types

[Joel Becker]

On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 06:00:13PM -0800, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> Mainline commit 2b47c3611de05c585e2d81204f6c7e3e255a3461 changed type of
> file->f_version from unsigned long to u64. This patch allows building with
> kernels having either definition. Build fails if the type is something else.

	I was trying to come up with a way to not create f_version_t.
You know, pass around a u64 and cast it when comparing to
inode->i_version.  But I'm not terribly happy with that, so I guess we
leave f_version_t.  Please reorganize it so that kapi-include/ is not
needed for mainline.

Joel

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