From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267505AbUHDX3N (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 19:29:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267507AbUHDX3N (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 19:29:13 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:49880 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267505AbUHDX3L (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Aug 2004 19:29:11 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 16:26:52 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Andi Kleen Cc: jgarzik@pobox.com, axboe@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: block layer sg, bsg Message-Id: <20040804162652.52213d04.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20040804232116.GA30152@muc.de> References: <2ppN4-1wi-11@gated-at.bofh.it> <2pvps-5xO-33@gated-at.bofh.it> <2pvz2-5Lf-19@gated-at.bofh.it> <2pwbQ-68b-43@gated-at.bofh.it> <20040804191850.GA19224@havoc.gtf.org> <20040804122254.3d52c2d4.davem@redhat.com> <20040804232116.GA30152@muc.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 5 Aug 2004 01:21:16 +0200 Andi Kleen wrote: > And it's pretty much unfixable because netlink is so adverse > to emulation layers. It is doable with is_compat_task() but you were against that. That's unfortunate, since is_compat_task() provides a neat solution for things like the USB device fs async stuff (ie. so 32-bit libusb would work on 64-bit systems)