Re: LVM 1.0 release decision

Christoph Hellwig (hch@caldera.de)
Sun, 13 May 2001 21:25:49 +0200

On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 06:36:11PM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> IMHO, no 64-bit architecture code should provide translation functions for
> ioctls from 32-bit binaries.
>
> This is now a sufficiently common requirement that it shouldn't be repeated
> by all architectures that require it - it should be somewhere common.
> Like linux/abi/ioctl32/

Better linux/abi/linux32 and have other 32/64-bit stuff there too.
At least the binfmt_elf32 stuff should be made MI, IMHO.

Christoph

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Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
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