From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl, torvalds@transmeta.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.15-pre4 - merge with Alan
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:28:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011114072852.A16556@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <torvalds@transmeta.com> <200111131410.fADEA9L8023291@pincoya.inf.utfsm.cl> <20011113162102.A2305@suse.de> <20011113.205729.71087461.davem@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011113.205729.71087461.davem@redhat.com>; from davem@redhat.com on Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 08:57:29PM -0800
On Tue, Nov 13, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> This first patch is wrong. lv_block_exception needs translating
> because the types are of a different size on sparc32 than on sparc64.
>
> Specifically the first member of lv_block_exception_t is
> 'struct list_head', which are two pointers, which is 8 bytes
> on sparc32 and 16 bytes on sparc64.
>
> Please do not apply these patches.
If the first one should be wrong, why not apply the second one ?
Or I'm missing something ?
To the first patch: Without it you will always get a kernel oops
in this part of ioctl32.c
Thorsten
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-12 19:01 Linux 2.4.15-pre4 - merge with Alan Linus Torvalds
2001-11-12 19:18 ` Trever L. Adams
2001-11-13 11:14 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-11-12 19:26 ` Matthew Dharm
2001-11-12 20:09 ` Martin Dalecki
2001-11-12 20:42 ` Greg KH
2001-11-12 23:43 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-11-13 1:11 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-12 23:45 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-11-12 23:48 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-11-13 0:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-11-13 0:25 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-11-13 0:42 ` J . A . Magallon
2001-11-13 7:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-11-13 5:17 ` Keith Owens
2001-11-13 10:43 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-13 17:27 ` Chad N. Tindel
2001-11-13 17:58 ` Chad N. Tindel
2001-11-13 5:54 ` Neil Brown
2001-11-13 6:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-13 9:41 ` Alan Cox
2001-11-13 6:03 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-13 6:16 ` Keith Owens
2001-11-13 6:23 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-13 8:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-11-13 6:18 ` Keith Owens
2001-11-13 14:10 ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-13 15:21 ` Thorsten Kukuk
2001-11-14 4:57 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-14 6:28 ` Thorsten Kukuk [this message]
2001-11-14 6:31 ` David S. Miller
2001-11-14 12:59 ` Horst von Brand
2001-11-13 15:37 ` [PATCH] " Russell King
2001-11-15 9:25 ` Problem with Linux 2.4.15-pre4 on an IBM ThinkPad Martin Persson
2001-11-15 11:57 ` Keith Owens
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-11-12 21:10 Linux 2.4.15-pre4 - merge with Alan Robert Cantu
2001-11-13 13:20 ` Andrey Savochkin
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