From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from patan.sun.com ([192.18.98.43]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 15NOxO-00040K-00 for ; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 02:19:54 +0100 Message-ID: <3B578A10.2475DD64@sun.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 18:32:00 -0700 From: Tim Hockin MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric , MTD List Subject: Re: [structure field names] References: <20010720011341.17284.qmail@nwcst289.netaddress.usa.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Eric wrote: > > There is a patch for SPARC/Linux in the patches directory > that performs 32- to 64-bit ioctl conversions. If you > touch any struct member names that are used as ioctl args > this patch will need to be rev'ed as well. > > Also, I just sent a new patch to Dave Miller this morning > for an update to these ioctl conversions-- if he accepts > it, I will update the patch in MTD CVS (which will then > need to merge with your changes). > > Do you plan to change any of those ioctl args in mtd.h? I was just planning to change the map_info, cfi_private, mtd_info structures, so that the fields were more descriptive: size -> map_size size -> mtd_size And the likes. Trying to decipher the MTD layer is very hard right now :) If there are any problems with Sparc patches, I can talk to Dave, he is always hanging around here. Tim -- Tim Hockin Systems Software Engineer Sun Microsystems, Cobalt Server Appliances thockin@sun.com