[Re: [structure field names] ]

[David Woodhouse]

ebrower at usa.net said:
>   In the case of the MEMREADOOB and MEMWRITEOOB ioctls, we still must
> do conversions so that the u8* is understood by the kernel to be a
> 32-bit userspace pointer and not a 64-bit kernelspace pointer. 

I don't like the MEMREADOOB and MEMWRITEOOB ioctls very much. I'm severely 
tempted to deprecate them and have a separate device for OOB space access. 
Does anyone ever actually use the /dev/mtdr<n> read-only devices?


>  I only brought this up because if the structure member names are
> modified, they must be modified in the sparc64 patch as well.  This
> is, unfortunately, a required headache.

I am sympathetic to Tim's request, but at this stage I think the pain of 
changing names probably outweighs the benefit.

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dwmw2