Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: LVM 1.0 release decision | Date | Sun, 13 May 2001 18:36:11 +0100 |
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davem@redhat.com said: > Andrea Arcangeli writes: > > Related side note: for the x86-64 kernel we won't support the emulation > > of the lvm ioctl from the 32bit executables to avoid the pointer > > conversion an mainteinance pain enterely, at least in the early stage > > the x86-64 lvmtools will have to be compiled elf64.
> I think that's a bad decision, but it is your's.
> To me, either you support fully the 32-bit execution environment or > you do not. After all the work that myself and others have done for > other platforms, there really is no need to cut corners in this area.
IMHO, no 64-bit architecture code should provide translation functions for ioctls from 32-bit binaries.
This is now a sufficiently common requirement that it shouldn't be repeated by all architectures that require it - it should be somewhere common. Like linux/abi/ioctl32/
-- dwmw2
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