>>>>> On Thu, 8 May 2003 15:27:30 -0400, Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> said:
Ben> 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.
Ben> I don't think so. Sparc64 and ia64 I know allow you to disable
Ben> 32bit compatibility. I'd be surprised if the other 32/64
Ben> architectures didn't.
Definitely. I turn it off on a regular basis and expect to use it
even less in the future.
--david
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