proc: make struct proc_dir_entry::namelen unsigned int
1. namelen is declared "unsigned short" which hints for "maybe space savings".
Indeed in 2.4 struct proc_dir_entry looked like:
struct proc_dir_entry {
unsigned short low_ino;
unsigned short namelen;
Now, low_ino is "unsigned int", all savings were gone for a long time.
"struct proc_dir_entry" is not that countless to worry about it's size,
anyway.
2. converting from unsigned short to int/unsigned int can only create
problems, we better play it safe.
Space is not really conserved, because of natural alignment for the next
field. sizeof(struct proc_dir_entry) remains the same.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/proc_fs.h b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
index 379eaed..838c114 100644
--- a/include/linux/proc_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
struct proc_dir_entry {
unsigned int low_ino;
- unsigned short namelen;
+ unsigned int namelen;
const char *name;
mode_t mode;
nlink_t nlink;