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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Mauelshagen@sistina.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	mge@sistina.com, hch@caldera.de
Subject: Re: LVM 1.0 release decision
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:36:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <23605.989775371@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15100.37367.477922.66043@pizda.ninka.net>
In-Reply-To: <15100.37367.477922.66043@pizda.ninka.net>  <20010511162745.B18341@sistina.com> <E14yDyI-0000yE-00@the-village.bc.nu> <20010511171124.M30355@athlon.random> <15100.18375.367656.3591@pizda.ninka.net> <20010512032453.A8259@athlon.random>


davem@redhat.com said:
> Andrea Arcangeli writes:
>  > Related side note: for the x86-64 kernel we won't support the emulation
>  > of the lvm ioctl from the 32bit executables to avoid the pointer
>  > conversion an mainteinance pain enterely, at least in the early stage
>  > the x86-64 lvmtools will have to be compiled elf64.

> I think that's a bad decision, but it is your's.

> To me, either you support fully the 32-bit execution environment or
> you do not.  After all the work that myself and others have done for
> other platforms, there really is no need to cut corners in this area.

IMHO, no 64-bit architecture code should provide translation functions for
ioctls from 32-bit binaries.

This is now a sufficiently common requirement that it shouldn't be repeated 
by all architectures that require it - it should be somewhere common.
Like linux/abi/ioctl32/



--
dwmw2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-05-13 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-11 16:27 LVM 1.0 release decision Heinz J. Mauelshagen
2001-05-11 14:32 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-11 15:11   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-11 20:12     ` David S. Miller
2001-05-12  1:24       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-12  1:29         ` David S. Miller
2001-05-12  2:54           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-12  5:19             ` David S. Miller
2001-05-12 13:39               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-05-13 17:36         ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2001-05-13 18:39           ` Alan Cox
2001-05-13 23:17             ` Chris Wedgwood
2001-05-13 19:25           ` Christoph Hellwig
2001-05-11 15:42   ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-05-11 17:02   ` Andreas Dilger
2001-05-16 15:03   ` Heinz J. Mauelshagen
2001-05-16 23:38     ` Alan Cox
2001-05-11 14:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-05-11 14:48   ` Mark Hahn

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