From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265930AbUHFNUh (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:20:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268134AbUHFNUg (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:20:36 -0400 Received: from colin2.muc.de ([193.149.48.15]:36624 "HELO colin2.muc.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265930AbUHFNU1 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Aug 2004 09:20:27 -0400 Date: 6 Aug 2004 15:20:25 +0200 Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2004 15:20:25 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: "David S. Miller" Cc: yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, axboe@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: block layer sg, bsg Message-ID: <20040806132025.GA28248@muc.de> References: <20040804232116.GA30152@muc.de> <20040804.165113.06226042.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> <20040805114917.GC31944@muc.de> <20040805.204637.107575718.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> <20040805211949.11fa33b7.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT In-Reply-To: <20040805211949.11fa33b7.davem@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:19:49PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > On Thu, 05 Aug 2004 20:46:37 -0700 (PDT) > YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 wrote: > > > I'd suggest changing XFRM_MSG_xxx things to 64bit-aware structures, > > whose layouts do not change between 64bit mode and 32bit mode. > > Of course, they will come with backward compatibility stuff. > > If you don't mind this, I'd like to take care of this. > > I think other tasks have much higher priority, especially > when a workaround exists for this problem, namely building > the native 64-bit version of the tool. As long as it runs on sparc64 it's not critical I guess :| People who can easily build 64bit programs normally don't need any 32bit userland. -Andi