From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 13 May 2001 13:36:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 13 May 2001 13:36:47 -0400 Received: from t2.redhat.com ([199.183.24.243]:24314 "EHLO passion.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 13 May 2001 13:36:39 -0400 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3 01/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: David Woodhouse X-Accept-Language: en_GB In-Reply-To: <15100.37367.477922.66043@pizda.ninka.net> In-Reply-To: <15100.37367.477922.66043@pizda.ninka.net> <20010511162745.B18341@sistina.com> <20010511171124.M30355@athlon.random> <15100.18375.367656.3591@pizda.ninka.net> <20010512032453.A8259@athlon.random> To: "David S. Miller" Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Alan Cox , Mauelshagen@sistina.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mge@sistina.com, hch@caldera.de Subject: Re: LVM 1.0 release decision Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:36:11 +0100 Message-ID: <23605.989775371@redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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