Re: ioctl cleanups: enable sg_io and serial stuff to be shared

From: Ben Collins (bcollins@debian.org)
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 14:27:30 EST

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 09:34:30PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > This would also solve the current problem where a module that is
> > compiled with compat ioctl's using register_ioctl32_conversion() is not
> > usable on a kernel compiled without CONFIG_COMPAT, even though it very
> > well should be.
>
> CONFIG_COMPAT is pretty much constant depending only on
> architecture. I see no point in complicating this.

I don't think so. Sparc64 and ia64 I know allow you to disable 32bit
compatibility. I'd be surprised if the other 32/64 architectures didn't. 

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