[OE-core] [PATCH v2 10/16] Fix mdadm for powerpc64

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Richard Purdie
<richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> I dug into this a bit. To quote asm/types.h:
>
> /*
>  * This is here because we used to use l64 for 64bit powerpc
>  * and we don't want to impact user mode with our change to ll64
>  * in the kernel.
>  */
> #if defined(__powerpc64__) && !defined(__KERNEL__)
> # include <asm-generic/int-l64.h>
> #else
> # include <asm-generic/int-ll64.h>
> #endif
>
> So ppc64 kernel space uses ll64 and userspace uses l64.
>
> This means __u64 is a long for ppc64 but a long long for x86_64. The
> format errors occurs rightly because a ull is being printed from a ul
> variable. This will happen to work but its messy.

Sorry, I'm missing if you are suggesting a solution here... do I need
to take an alternate approach? The alternative is to patch the
printfs?

-M