Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 13 Jan 2001 17:06:16 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [linux-lvm] Re: *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta1 available at www.sistina.com |
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On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 06:43:23PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Anton, you write: > > Have a look at 2.4, arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c > > Yuk. > > > Would it be possible to clean up the ioctl interface so we dont need > > such large hacks for LVM support? I can do the work but I want to be > > sure you guys will agree to it. > > What is the reason for all this? Alignment/wordsize/other? If you look > at the IOP10 code, much of the in-core data structs were changed to int > or long, so this sparc code may not be necessary.
The longs are the biggest problem AFAICS. long is 64bit on sparc64 and 32bit on sparc32...
Christoph
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