From: Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 11:31:37 +0200
> One common problem with 32 bit system call and ioctl emulation > is the different alignment rules between i386 and 64 bit machines. > A number of drivers work around this by marking the compat > structures as 'attribute((packed))', which is not the right > solution because it breaks all the non-x86 architectures that > want to use the same compat code. > > Hopefully, this patch improves the situation, it introduces two > new types, compat_u64 and compat_s64. These are defined on all > architectures to have the same size and alignment as the 32 bit > version of u64 and s64. > > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Acked-by: David S. Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
