Re: 2.6.12-rc2-mm1

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 07:58:19PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> > 
> > E.g. on my ia64 box CONFIG_COMPAT is set because I have support compiled
> > in for running i386 apps.  But I don't want dri to hand out 32bit handles
> > everywhere just because of that, because I most certainly won't be running
> > i386 OpenGL apps.
> > 
> 
> It doesn't actually matter what size the handles are from what I
> understand of this... as long as they are hashed properly.. I've been
> thinking of changing the handle from something with meaning to a hash
> just to find out some more bugs.. even on plain 32-bit systems..

Or, I though the handle was related to the dma_mask somewhat.  I'll take
all flames on this subject back and apologize for not researching the subject
better, although I still think it's not a good idea to have a different
handle format depending on whether CONFIG_COMPAT is set or not.

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