Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:51:18 +0000 | From | Patrick Caulfield <> | Subject | Re: [linux-lvm] Re: *** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta1 available at www.sistina.com |
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On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 05:06:16PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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.
If you're prepared to do the work we'd be glad to accept the patch - please send it to me or the list so I can check over it before committing it. As we don't have an UltraSPARC available for testing it's probably better done by someone who does !
> > 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...
There are still a few ulong members in lvm.h, they should be uint32_t
patrick
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