Hi!
> > > Well, you just doubled the size of the table on sparc64.
> > > I don't know if I like that.
> >
> > Not much of a way around it.
> >
> > Such problems are only in your mind. :-)
> >
> > What's wrong with defining the type and accessor macros
> > in include/asm/compat.h?
>
> One thing I am just now wondering is why struct ioctl_trans defines cmd
> as an unsigned long instead of just unsigned int. That adds an uneeded
> bit of space to the array.
Do you think so?
cmd probably could be u32 (since it is ioctl32 after all), but I doubt
it matters, as two following entries are pointers so it looks to me
like it is going to be lost by alignment, anyway.
> As for your suggestion, sounds great, but I'll leave it to Pavel :)
First things first, patch probably still breaks all other
architectures than x86-64 and sparc64....
Pavel
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