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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/proc_fs.h b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
index 379eaed72d4b..838c1149251a 100644
--- a/include/linux/proc_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/proc_fs.h
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ typedef	int (write_proc_t)(struct file *file, const char __user *buffer,
 
 struct proc_dir_entry {
 	unsigned int low_ino;
-	unsigned short namelen;
+	unsigned int namelen;
 	const char *name;
 	mode_t mode;
 	nlink_t nlink;