Re: 2.1.126 still no sparc64 autofsu

[Jakub Jelinek <jj@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>]

> 
>    From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
>    Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 15:49:21 -0800 (PST)
> 
>    Problem is that autofs passes an "unsigned long" in the ioctl()
>    *argument*, not in a structure; also it passes data to the daemon via
>    a packetized protocol on a pipe.
> 
> Ok, we have a similar issue for rtnetlink on sparc64 running 32-bit
> binaries.  That piece is so complex that I've decided to tell people
> for now to wait until we have a 64-bit userland if they want to run
> programs like gated :-)
> 
> I looked at this patch, and it occurs to me, why to make it an
> unsigned long ever?  For one thing this wait_queue_token seems to be
> set by an int counter (autofs_next_wait_queue).

I guess probably just for alpha compatibility. So the best would be to use a
u32 everywhere and have a special case for alpha - u64 - to keep it binary
compatible.

Cheers,
    Jakub
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