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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