From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.com) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 23:59:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.com) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 23:59:09 -0400 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([209.10.41.242]:49800 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 11 May 2001 23:58:12 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 03:24:53 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: "David S. Miller" Cc: Alan Cox , Mauelshagen@sistina.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mge@sistina.com Subject: Re: LVM 1.0 release decision Message-ID: <20010512032453.A8259@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010511162745.B18341@sistina.com> <20010511171124.M30355@athlon.random> <15100.18375.367656.3591@pizda.ninka.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15100.18375.367656.3591@pizda.ninka.net>; from davem@redhat.com on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:12:55PM -0700 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 01:12:55PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > They can be converted, [..] of course, and part of that code will be still necessary also with the >=beta4 lvm interface to still convert the pointers of the userspace data structures but my point was we probably want to avoid that complexity where it's not necessary (feasible was too strong adj sorry). Related side note: for the x86-64 kernel we won't support the emulation of the lvm ioctl from the 32bit executables to avoid the pointer conversion an mainteinance pain enterely, at least in the early stage the x86-64 lvmtools will have to be compiled elf64. Andrea