Messages in this thread | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: compat ioctl32 for /dev/snapshot? | Date | Tue, 5 May 2009 13:38:45 +0200 |
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On Monday 04 May 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > In fact I don't think the 32-bit user space will work with 64-bit kernels as is > in this particular case, because of the different pointer size. > > Having a quick look at the code (I don't remember the details right now) > I think most probably it could be modified to handle this case too, but I'm not > really sure.
I don't see anything in the snapshot code that passes pointers to the kernel, so why should the pointer size matter?
Arnd <><
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