On Sunday 20 May 2007, Stefan Richter wrote:
> 
> > Note that this data structure only needs conversion on x86_64 and ia64, but
> > not on powerpc and other 64 bit architectures that align __u64 also in
> > 32 bit mode.
> 
> Is this conversion just unnecessary or actually harmful on ppc64 and others?

With the current patch, the compat_ioctl function does not handle the ppc32
version of the structure at all, so it's broken there, it would at least
need a 

        case RAW1394_IOC_GET_CYCLE_TIMER:
                err = raw1394_ioctl(NULL, file, cmd, arg);
                break;

        Arnd <><
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