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Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 14:53:01 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Linus <torvalds@transmeta.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Beginnings of conpat 32 code cleanups
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Hi!

> There is a lot of duplicated code among the 32 compatibility layers in our
> 64 bit architectures.  I am proposing to considate this as much as
> possible. To that end, I first need to tidy up the relevant header files
> and make them as common as possible.  Discussions with Dave Miller, Andi
> Kleen, and Anton Blanchard has led to the creation of compat32.h to
> contain all the 32 compatibility data types.
> 
> This patch merely adds include/asm-generic/compat32.h which is the header
> information that is common to all the 32 bit compatibility code across all
> the architectures (except parisc as I don't pretend to understand that
> :-)).
> 
> I will follow this up with patches for each architecture that I can. I

I'll be happy to test anything you have on
x86-64...

-- 
				Pavel
Written on sharp zaurus, because my Velo1 broke. If you have Velo you don't need...

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