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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:28:52 +0100
From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.15-pre4 - merge with Alan
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On Tue, Nov 13, David S. Miller wrote:

> 
> This first patch is wrong.  lv_block_exception needs translating
> because the types are of a different size on sparc32 than on sparc64.
> 
> Specifically the first member of lv_block_exception_t is
> 'struct list_head', which are two pointers, which is 8 bytes
> on sparc32 and 16 bytes on sparc64.
> 
> Please do not apply these patches.

If the first one should be wrong, why not apply the second one ?
Or I'm missing something ?
To the first patch: Without it you will always get a kernel oops
in this part of ioctl32.c

  Thorsten

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