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From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc: akpm@digeo.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@transmeta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kdevt-diff
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 10:51:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030414175141.GS4917@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200304132245.h3DMjaT25518.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>

On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 12:45:36AM +0200, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> The structure here is 8+8, except when more bits are
> present, in which case it is 16+16, except when more bits
> are present, in which case it is 32+32.

	Why complicate things?  Is it that bad?  We'd all have to know
about the mess when dealing with userspace.

Joel

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Joel Becker
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  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-14 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-13 22:45 [PATCH] kdevt-diff Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-14 17:51 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2003-04-14 18:00   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-14 19:15     ` Joel Becker
2003-04-14 19:34     ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-16 16:43     ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-14 18:12 ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-14 18:18   ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-14 18:31     ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-14 18:40       ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-14 19:28         ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-14 19:51           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-04-14 20:02             ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-15 13:37     ` Roman Zippel
2003-04-23 15:19       ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-14 22:01 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-14 22:11 ` Joel Becker
2003-04-14 22:18   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-04-14 22:28     ` Joel Becker
2003-04-16 16:48     ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-16 20:19       ` Andries Brouwer
2003-04-16 20:27         ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-04-15 14:04 Andries.Brouwer
2003-04-15 14:53 ` Roman Zippel

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