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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 21:34:01 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Start of compat32.h (again)
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
   Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 10:51:54 -0800 (PST)
   
   You might as well also discuss just dropping the "32" from "compat32"  
   while you're at it. As far as I can tell the code and the fundamental
   issue has nothing to do with 32-bitness per se.

I'm fine with this.

But having one "compat" could have some unintended side effects.  For
example, what if we wanted to make the iBCS2 layer work for x86 apps
on ia64?  With one "compat" thing, something like that gets hokey and
ibcs2 will probably end up in it's own tons_of_ibcs2_junk.c file.
With more care, it could be easy to integrate and simpler to maintain.

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