Re: how to detect a 32 bit process on 64 bit kernel

Michael S. Tsirkin
2004-12-13T20:10:22Z

Hello!
Quoting r. Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org) "Re: how to detect a 32 bit process on 64 bit kernel":
> > If no - would not it make a sence to add e.g. a flag in the
> > task struct, to make it possible?
>
> The kernel code shouldn't know. If your driver needs this information
> something is seriously wrong with it.

A character driver I am working on gets passed a structure
from user space by implementing a write file operation.
The structure includes a pointer and so the format varies
between a 32 and 64 bit processes.

mst