From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S966763Ab2ERA2J (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2012 20:28:09 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:38832 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932297Ab2ERA2G (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 May 2012 20:28:06 -0400 Message-ID: <4FB59789.80601@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 17:27:53 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120329 Thunderbird/11.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: David Daney , Ralf Baechle , "H.J. Lu" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, mingo@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] Use __kernel_ulong_t in struct msqid64_ds References: <1337292816-10839-1-git-send-email-hjl.tools@gmail.com> <1337292816-10839-9-git-send-email-hjl.tools@gmail.com> <4FB58EFD.7010302@zytor.com> <4FB59474.2020505@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/17/2012 05:22 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > That's why I think it's unfixable. It started out broken, and I > presume that 32-bit user land on a 64-bit MIPS/PPC thing either do not > work, or there's some compat crap (like special user-land headers) > fixing things up. Or they just don't use that buggered msqid64_ds > thing at all. > I guess we need to find out what mips, ppc, sparc etc. do and if they have something which works in userland make sure that it gets exported accordingly, if they don't, then well... nothing we can do :-/ -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.