From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
dhowells@redhat.com, raven@themaw.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Force same size of struct autofs_v5_packet on x86 and x86_64
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:19:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110916101903.GI2203@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1316167604.6545.84.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 12:06:38PM +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote:
> autofs_v5_packet is 300 bytes on x86 and 304 bytes on x86_64.
> This difference is wrong and leads to a hang in systemd when running
> a x86 userspace on an x86_64 kernel.
NAK.
You are talking about the userland ABI. With existing users. Changing
it might help systemd (what the hell is it doing with autofs, anyway?),
but breaking existing binaries (you know, ones that *do* have some business
dealing with autofs) is not acceptable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-16 10:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-16 10:06 [PATCH] Force same size of struct autofs_v5_packet on x86 and x86_64 Thomas Meyer
2011-09-16 10:19 ` Al Viro [this message]
2011-09-16 10:38 ` Ian Kent
2011-09-18 8:01 ` Thomas Meyer
2011-09-19 3:52 ` Ian Kent
2011-09-19 6:10 ` Al Viro
2011-09-19 9:30 ` Thomas Meyer
2011-09-19 15:27 ` Al Viro
2011-09-20 3:07 ` Ian Kent
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