Re: how to detect a 32 bit process on 64 bit kernel

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

Hello!
Quoting r. Christoph Hellwig (hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) "Re: how to detect a 32 bit process on 64 bit kernel":
> > If no - would not it make a sence to add e.g. a flag in the
> > task struct, to make it possible?
> 
> The kernel code shouldn't know.  If your driver needs this information
> something is seriously wrong with it. 

A character driver I am working on gets passed a structure
from user space by implementing a write file operation.
The structure includes a pointer and so the format varies
between a 32 and 64 bit processes.

mst
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