From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
torvalds@transmeta.com, ak@suse.de, davem@redhat.com
Subject: Re: ioctl32 consolidation
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:44:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030220224433.GV9800@gtf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030220223119.GA18545@elf.ucw.cz>
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 11:31:19PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Currently, 32-bit emulation in kernel has *5* copies, and its >1000
> lines each.
Yes :/ Consolidating all these copies into a single layer has been a
"project to be" for quite some time.
I do not know if it is too late in 2.5.x to begin this work, however.
We _are_ in a feature freeze... I suppose it is up to the consensus of
arch maintainers, because it [obviously] does not affect ia32.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-20 22:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-20 22:31 ioctl32 consolidation Pavel Machek
2003-02-20 22:44 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-02-21 11:34 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-21 11:58 ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-21 23:21 ` David S. Miller
2003-03-01 19:49 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-02-20 22:56 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-02-20 23:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-21 0:36 ` David S. Miller
2003-02-21 1:31 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-02-21 1:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-21 3:20 ` David S. Miller
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[not found] ` <20030221114011$25df@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-02-21 22:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
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2003-02-24 10:05 Martin Schwidefsky
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