From: Patrick Caulfield <caulfield@sistina.com>
To: linux-lvm@sistina.com, 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: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:51:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010116085117.A696@tykepenguin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010113114507.D15915@linuxcare.com> <200101130143.f0D1hNF19829@webber.adilger.net> <20010113170616.B22699@caldera.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010113170616.B22699@caldera.de>; from hch@ns.caldera.de on Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 05:06:16PM +0100
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 05:06:16PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.
If you're prepared to do the work we'd be glad to accept the patch - please send
it to me or the list so I can check over it before committing it. As we don't
have an UltraSPARC available for testing it's probably better done by someone
who does !
> > 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...
There are still a few ulong members in lvm.h, they should be uint32_t
patrick
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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 ` [linux-lvm] " Christoph Hellwig
2001-01-14 1:23 ` Anton Blanchard
2001-01-16 8:51 ` Patrick Caulfield [this message]
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