From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mISDN cleanup user interface
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:02:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217365330.417.8.camel@californication> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1217362946.27925.137.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
Hi Karsten,
> > Please pull from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kkeil/ISDN-2.6.git master
> >
> > The channelmap should have the same size on 32 and 64 bit
> > systems. Thanks to David Woodhouse for spotting this.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
>
> Er, isn't that still broken? Consider 32-bit userspace on 64-bit kernel,
> big-endian.
I agree with David here. Please lets not do these horribly things again.
Almost everybody has done their fair share of brokenness with the compat
layers. Especially 32-bit userspace on 64-bit kernels. Using __u32 and
alike is a way better choice and less headache.
Regards
Marcel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-29 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-29 19:56 [PATCH] mISDN cleanup user interface Karsten Keil
2008-07-29 20:22 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-29 21:02 ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2008-07-30 9:13 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-30 16:33 ` Karsten Keil
2008-07-30 16:57 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-30 17:51 ` Karsten Keil
2008-07-30 18:37 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-07-30 18:46 ` Karsten Keil
2008-07-30 19:08 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-30 15:08 ` Karsten Keil
2008-08-01 17:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-08-02 15:21 ` Karsten Keil
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