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Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 08:44:29 -0700
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: block layer sg, bsg
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On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 17:04:04 +0200
Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 04 2004, David S. Miller wrote:
> > 
> > When you pass data structures in via {read,write}{,v}() system calls,
> > you make it next to impossible for the CONFIG_COMPAT layer to cope
> > with this.
> > 
> > Please consider another way to pass in those sg_io_* things.
> 
> Any suggestions?

ioctl() :-(

Or use a more portable well-defined type which does not change
size nor layout between 32-bit and 64-bit environments.