From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: pavel@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, ak@suse.de, arnd@bergmann-dalldorf.de
Subject: Re: ioctl32 consolidation -- call for testing
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:12:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030227211256.GR21100@phunnypharm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030227.123701.16257819.davem@redhat.com>
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:37:01PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:50:44 -0500
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:21:26PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> > Well, you just doubled the size of the table on sparc64.
> > I don't know if I like that.
>
> Not much of a way around it.
>
> Such problems are only in your mind. :-)
>
> What's wrong with defining the type and accessor macros
> in include/asm/compat.h?
One thing I am just now wondering is why struct ioctl_trans defines cmd
as an unsigned long instead of just unsigned int. That adds an uneeded
bit of space to the array.
As for your suggestion, sounds great, but I'll leave it to Pavel :)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-27 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-26 22:26 ioctl32 consolidation -- call for testing Pavel Machek
2003-02-27 19:44 ` Ben Collins
2003-02-27 19:51 ` Ben Collins
2003-02-27 20:27 ` Ben Collins
2003-02-27 20:13 ` David S. Miller
2003-02-27 20:34 ` Ben Collins
2003-02-27 20:21 ` David S. Miller
2003-02-27 20:50 ` Ben Collins
2003-02-27 20:37 ` David S. Miller
2003-02-27 21:12 ` Ben Collins [this message]
2003-02-28 13:23 ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-28 15:49 ` Ben Collins
2003-03-01 0:52 ` David S. Miller
2003-02-28 13:20 ` Pavel Machek
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