Re: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Sat, 03 Sep 2011 10:27:42 PDT, "H. Peter Anvin" said:

> About ioctl in particular, the ABI has dependencies into almost every 
> single driver in the Linux kernel.  It is hard-coded in the kernel that 
> there are two paths -- native and compat.  Since pointers are going to 
> be 4 bytes, it means we have to use the compat path.

Ah, that's the part I was missing, thanks.

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