From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Jelinek Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 06:48:58 +0000 Subject: Re: 2.1.126 still no sparc64 autofsu Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org > Problem is that autofs passes an "unsigned long" in the ioctl() > *argument*, not in a structure; That's no problem. In fact, 32bit syscall entry code zero extends already in assembly, so handling this is really a nop. > also it passes data to the daemon via > a packetized protocol on a pipe. That's the only problem I'd have with autofs and that's why it was not working. I was thinking about overriding the f_ops of the pipe file descriptor, so that it points to a special write method which would do the conversion of the structure before sending it over the pipe, but your autofs_wqt_t patch is of course much better, as it does not need additional code and complexity. Thanks. Cheers, Jakub ___________________________________________________________________ Jakub Jelinek | jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz | http://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz Administrator of SunSITE Czech Republic, MFF, Charles University ___________________________________________________________________ Ultralinux - first 64bit OS to take full power of the UltraSparc Linux version 2.1.127 on a sparc64 machine (498.80 BogoMips). ___________________________________________________________________