From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 13:32:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 13:25:14 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([209.10.41.242]:59872 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 13 Jan 2001 13:25:02 -0500 Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:06:16 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: linux-lvm@sistina.com Cc: Anton Blanchard , 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 Message-ID: <20010113170616.B22699@caldera.de> Mail-Followup-To: linux-lvm@sistina.com, Anton Blanchard , Mauelshagen@sistina.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lvm@sistina.com In-Reply-To: <20010113114507.D15915@linuxcare.com> <200101130143.f0D1hNF19829@webber.adilger.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <200101130143.f0D1hNF19829@webber.adilger.net>; from adilger@turbolinux.com on Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:43:23PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/