Re: block layer sg, bsg

[Jeff Garzik]

On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 08:44:29AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> Or use a more portable well-defined type which does not change
> size nor layout between 32-bit and 64-bit environments.

IMO if this (the above) is not done, the interface needs work.

For interfaces that replace ioctl(2) with read(2)/write(2), for passing
data structures to/from the kernel, Al has rightly suggested that these
structures be not only fixed size (as David described above), but also
fixed-endian.

	Jeff



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