Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262095AbTEHUNr (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 16:13:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262097AbTEHUNr (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 16:13:47 -0400 Received: from palrel12.hp.com ([156.153.255.237]:29356 "EHLO palrel12.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262095AbTEHUNq (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 16:13:46 -0400 From: David Mosberger MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16058.48490.620518.27093@napali.hpl.hp.com> Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 13:26:18 -0700 To: Ben Collins Cc: Pavel Machek , "David S. Miller" , Christoph Hellwig , Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ioctl cleanups: enable sg_io and serial stuff to be shared In-Reply-To: <20030508192730.GX679@phunnypharm.org> References: <20030507104008$12ba@gated-at.bofh.it> <200305071154.h47BsbsD027038@post.webmailer.de> <20030507124113.GA412@elf.ucw.cz> <20030507135600.A22642@infradead.org> <1052318339.9817.8.camel@rth.ninka.net> <20030508151643.GO679@phunnypharm.org> <20030508193430.GC933@elf.ucw.cz> <20030508192730.GX679@phunnypharm.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under Emacs 21.2.1 Reply-To: davidm@hpl.hp.com X-URL: http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1047 Lines: 27 >>>>> On Thu, 8 May 2003 15:27:30 -0400, Ben Collins 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/