Re: Commit 085219f79cad broke Sparc-32 back in 2.6.28.

[David Miller]

From: Rob Landley <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:25:09 -0600

> 085219f79cad89291699bd2bfb21c9fdabafe65f is first bad commit
> commit 085219f79cad89291699bd2bfb21c9fdabafe65f
> Author: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Fri Jan 2 18:47:34 2009 -0800
> 
>     sparc32: use proper types in struct stat
>     
>     Like sparc64 use proper types in struct stat
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This commit breaks stat and makes sparc32 essentially unusable.  It changes 
> the size of the various types in stat.h, and means that if you "mount -t tmpfs 
> /tmp /tmp" and then try to ls /tmp, ls dies with a memory allocation error.
> 
> I've confirmed that reverting it fixes the problem.

Thanks for tracking this down Rob, I'll work on a fix and
push it around.
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