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Re: return?

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 06:34, Mark Hounschell wrote:

> Well I'm sorry. I have tried this myself. And if done within a kernel
> module it only returns the 32 ls bits. In userland I have no problem
> with it. I was hesitant to post it here but since I'm only having a
> problem with it in my kernel driver module "ioctl", I did. Try setting x
> to 0x0123456789abcdef in a kernel function...

Try using "u64" as the type.

Also make sure you set integer literals with ULL/LL, e.g.

	0x0123456789abcdefULL

We have functions that return 64-bits in the kernel, see get_jiffies64()
in 2.6.  So it does work.

	Robert Love


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