From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 12 May 2001 01:19:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 12 May 2001 01:19:26 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:56990 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 12 May 2001 01:19:19 -0400 From: "David S. Miller" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15100.51153.711892.548545@pizda.ninka.net> Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 22:19:13 -0700 (PDT) To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: Alan Cox , Mauelshagen@sistina.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mge@sistina.com Subject: Re: LVM 1.0 release decision In-Reply-To: <20010512045456.E8259@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010511162745.B18341@sistina.com> <20010511171124.M30355@athlon.random> <15100.18375.367656.3591@pizda.ninka.net> <20010512032453.A8259@athlon.random> <15100.37367.477922.66043@pizda.ninka.net> <20010512045456.E8259@athlon.random> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 13) "Crater Lake" XEmacs Lucid Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrea Arcangeli writes: > you _must_ know very well what the mainteinance of that code means ;). Which is why I added the facility by which such ioctl conversions can be registered at runtime by the subsystem/driver itself. > BTW, it would be nice if somebody would take care of unifying the > large sharable parts of the emulation code between > x86-64/sparc64/ia64/mips64, this was mentioned by Andi several times but > nothing is been done in that direction yet, they for large part do the > same things and somehow we duplicate efforts across all those ports (if > we exclude the regs maniuplation in the ELF_PLAT_DATA and friends that > can be localized easily). If we do that kind of sharing all the other > ports would probably get the 32bit emulation for the lvm ioctl for free > from the sparc64 effort for example. I'm already planning on doing this, but it is a 2.5.x project. Dave Mosberger agrees with this as has anyone else I've mentioned the idea to, so consider it basically done in 2.5.x sometime. Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com