Re: [PATCH] /proc/sys/kernel/pointer_size

David S. Miller
2003-01-08T22:34:41Z

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 12:28:23 -0800 (PST)

Don't add stupid bloat to the kernel because somebody is silly
enough to care about a 32-bit oprofile working with a 64-bit kernel.

Being that 32-bit is the primary (and in many ways, ONLY) userland for
at least 2 64-bit kernel platforms, I think this does matter.

We're exporting an int to userland, what kind of bloat is that really?