Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 22:06:30 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ioctl cleanups: enable sg_io and serial stuff to be shared
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> 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.


Really? I thought sparc64 has no real 64-bit userland?

Okay, it might make sense on x86-64, but I do not think savings are
worth the trouble.
					Pavel
> 

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