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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@ns.caldera.de>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@linuxcare.com.au>,
	Mauelshagen@sistina.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	lvm@sistina.com
Subject: Re: [linux-lvm] Re: *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta1 available at www.sistina.com
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:06:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010113170616.B22699@caldera.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010113114507.D15915@linuxcare.com> <200101130143.f0D1hNF19829@webber.adilger.net>
In-Reply-To: <200101130143.f0D1hNF19829@webber.adilger.net>; from adilger@turbolinux.com on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:43:23PM -0700

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:43:23PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote:
> Anton, you write:
> > Have a look at 2.4, arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c
> 
> Yuk.
> 
> > Would it be possible to clean up the ioctl interface so we dont need
> > such large hacks for LVM support? I can do the work but I want to be
> > sure you guys will agree to it.
> 
> What is the reason for all this?  Alignment/wordsize/other?  If you look
> at the IOP10 code, much of the in-core data structs were changed to int
> or long, so this sparc code may not be necessary.

The longs are the biggest problem AFAICS.
long is 64bit on sparc64 and 32bit on sparc32...

	Christoph

-- 
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-01-13 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-13  1:15 *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta1 available at www.sistina.com Heinz J. Mauelshagen
2001-01-13  0:45 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-01-13  1:43   ` Andreas Dilger
2001-01-13  3:00     ` Anton Blanchard
2001-01-13 16:06     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2001-01-14  1:23       ` [linux-lvm] " Anton Blanchard
2001-01-16  8:51       ` Patrick Caulfield

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