Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 14 Nov 2001 07:28:52 +0100 | From | Thorsten Kukuk <> | 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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