Re: ioctl cleanups: enable sg_io and serial stuff to be shared

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@ucw.cz)
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 15:06:30 EST

> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 09:34:30PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > This would also solve the current problem where a module that is
> > > compiled with compat ioctl's using register_ioctl32_conversion() is not
> > > usable on a kernel compiled without CONFIG_COMPAT, even though it very
> > > well should be.
> >
> > CONFIG_COMPAT is pretty much constant depending only on
> > architecture. I see no point in complicating this.
>
> I don't think so. Sparc64 and ia64 I know allow you to disable 32bit
> compatibility. I'd be surprised if the other 32/64 architectures
didn't.

Really? I thought sparc64 has no real 64-bit userland?

Okay, it might make sense on x86-64, but I do not think savings are
worth the trouble.
                                        Pavel
> 

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