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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.4-mm1
Date: 12 Mar 2004 15:03:52 +0100
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 15:03:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040312140352.GA80958@colin2.muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040312134943.GY18345@reti>

On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 01:49:43PM +0000, Joe Thornber wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 06:58:26AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > That's bad because it will break binary compatibility for existing
> > x86-64 systems.  Don't add that please. Either emulate it properly
> > or I will just declare the 32bit DM emulation broken and users will
> > have to live with that.
> 
> So you want me to put in a seperate set of ioctl codes for
> compatibility.

Breaking the 64bit ABI is not acceptable at least. There are distributions
shipping that use it.

For 32bit emulation you can use what you think is easiest or just
ignore it if it's too hard (64bit is more important than 32bit)

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2004-03-12 14:03 UTC|newest]

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2004-03-19  5:58                 ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andi Kleen
2004-03-12 13:49                   ` 2.6.4-mm1 Joe Thornber
2004-03-12 14:03                     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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2004-03-19  6:00                     ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andi Kleen
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2004-03-17 23:21 ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andi Kleen
2004-03-11 19:28   ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-03-11 20:21     ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andi Kleen
2004-03-11 20:48       ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-03-11 23:37       ` 2.6.4-mm1 Nick Piggin
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2004-03-17 23:25   ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andi Kleen
2004-03-11 13:45     ` 2.6.4-mm1 Mickael Marchand
2004-03-11 14:48       ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andi Kleen
2004-03-11 15:10         ` 2.6.4-mm1 Mickael Marchand
2004-03-11 15:20           ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andi Kleen
2004-03-11 21:43         ` 2.6.4-mm1 Joe Thornber
2004-03-11 21:57           ` 2.6.4-mm1 Joe Thornber
2004-03-11 21:59           ` 2.6.4-mm1 Joel Becker
2004-03-11 22:02             ` 2.6.4-mm1 Joel Becker
2004-03-11 22:11             ` 2.6.4-mm1 Chris Friesen
2004-03-11 23:37           ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andi Kleen
2004-03-12  8:22             ` 2.6.4-mm1 Joe Thornber
2004-03-12  9:49               ` 2.6.4-mm1 Joe Thornber
2004-03-12 12:11                 ` 2.6.4-mm1 Mickael Marchand
2004-03-12 12:35                   ` 2.6.4-mm1 Joe Thornber
2004-03-12 22:48                   ` 2.6.4-mm1 Hugo Mills
2004-03-11 21:38       ` 2.6.4-mm1 Joe Thornber
2004-03-11 23:33         ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andi Kleen
2004-03-14 16:13 2.6.4-mm1 Nakajima, Jun
2004-03-14 17:04 ` 2.6.4-mm1 Grzegorz Kulewski
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-03-14  8:04 2.6.4-mm1 Nakajima, Jun
2004-03-14  8:31 ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-03-12 23:04 2.6.4-mm1 Subodh Shrivastava
2004-03-12 23:55 ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-03-13 13:12   ` 2.6.4-mm1 SUBODH SHRIVASTAVA
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2004-03-12 15:48 ` 2.6.4-mm1 Len Brown
2004-03-12  3:04 2.6.4-mm1 Nakajima, Jun
2004-03-12  3:14 ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andi Kleen
2004-03-12  4:24   ` 2.6.4-mm1 Nick Piggin
2004-03-12 14:14     ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andi Kleen
2004-03-12 14:38       ` 2.6.4-mm1 Nick Piggin
2004-03-11 18:46 2.6.4-mm1 Nakajima, Jun
2004-03-11  7:31 2.6.4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-03-11  8:26 ` 2.6.4-mm1 Jens Axboe
2004-03-11  8:30 ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-03-11  9:34   ` 2.6.4-mm1 Matthias Urlichs
2004-03-11  9:17 ` 2.6.4-mm1 Mickael Marchand
2004-03-11 11:06   ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-03-11 11:22     ` 2.6.4-mm1 Anton Blanchard
2004-03-11 12:23     ` 2.6.4-mm1 Mickael Marchand
2004-03-11 13:40 ` 2.6.4-mm1 jlnance
2004-03-11 19:25   ` 2.6.4-mm1 Mike Fedyk
2004-03-11 22:22   ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-03-11 13:49 ` 2.6.4-mm1 Anton Blanchard
2004-03-11 23:29   ` 2.6.4-mm1 Nick Piggin
2004-03-12  2:03     ` 2.6.4-mm1 Nick Piggin
2004-03-12  2:12       ` 2.6.4-mm1 Anton Blanchard
2004-03-12  5:11       ` 2.6.4-mm1 Anton Blanchard
2004-03-11 13:52 ` 2.6.4-mm1 Anton Blanchard
2004-03-11 15:23 ` 2.6.4-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-11 15:54   ` 2.6.4-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-11 17:06 ` 2.6.4-mm1 Redeeman
2004-03-11 17:53   ` 2.6.4-mm1 Norberto Bensa
2004-03-11 18:09     ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-03-11 18:14       ` 2.6.4-mm1 Redeeman
2004-03-11 18:46         ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-03-11 20:58           ` 2.6.4-mm1 Redeeman
2004-03-11 21:10             ` 2.6.4-mm1 Redeeman
2004-03-11 18:22       ` 2.6.4-mm1 Norberto Bensa
2004-03-11 20:29   ` 2.6.4-mm1 Felipe Alfaro Solana
2004-03-12  1:03 ` 2.6.4-mm1 Neil Brown
2004-03-12  1:22   ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-03-12  5:48     ` 2.6.4-mm1 Neil Brown
2004-03-12  7:50       ` 2.6.4-mm1 Andrew Morton
2004-03-13 10:25         ` 2.6.4-mm1 Neil Brown
2004-03-12  9:04 ` 2.6.4-mm1 Helge Hafting

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