Re: ioctl32 consolidation -- call for testing

From: Ben Collins (bcollins@debian.org)
Date: Thu Feb 27 2003 - 16:12:56 EST


On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:37:01PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:50:44 -0500
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 12:21:26PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> > Well, you just doubled the size of the table on sparc64.
> > I don't know if I like that.
>
> Not much of a way around it.
>
> Such problems are only in your mind. :-)
>
> What's wrong with defining the type and accessor macros
> in include/asm/compat.h?

One thing I am just now wondering is why struct ioctl_trans defines cmd
as an unsigned long instead of just unsigned int. That adds an uneeded
bit of space to the array.

As for your suggestion, sounds great, but I'll leave it to Pavel :)

-- 
Debian     - http://www.debian.org/
Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/
Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/
Deqo       - http://www.deqo.com/
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Fri Feb 28 2003 - 22:00:45 EST