Messages in this thread |  | | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Date | Fri, 11 May 2001 22:19:13 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: LVM 1.0 release decision |
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Andrea Arcangeli writes: > you _must_ know very well what the mainteinance of that code means ;).
Which is why I added the facility by which such ioctl conversions can be registered at runtime by the subsystem/driver itself.
> BTW, it would be nice if somebody would take care of unifying the > large sharable parts of the emulation code between > x86-64/sparc64/ia64/mips64, this was mentioned by Andi several times but > nothing is been done in that direction yet, they for large part do the > same things and somehow we duplicate efforts across all those ports (if > we exclude the regs maniuplation in the ELF_PLAT_DATA and friends that > can be localized easily). If we do that kind of sharing all the other > ports would probably get the 32bit emulation for the lvm ioctl for free > from the sparc64 effort for example.
I'm already planning on doing this, but it is a 2.5.x project. Dave Mosberger agrees with this as has anyone else I've mentioned the idea to, so consider it basically done in 2.5.x sometime.
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