On Wed, 3 Jul 2024 at 10:40, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Oh wow. Shows just *how* long ago that was - and how long ago I looked
> at 32-bit code. Because clearly, I was wrong.
Ok, so clearly any *new* 32-bit architecture should use 'struct statx'
as 'struct stat', and at least avoid the conversion pain.
Of course, if using <asm-generic/stat.h> like loongarch does, that is
very much not what happens. You get those old models with just 'long'.
So any architecture that didn't do that 'stat == statx' and has
binaries with old stat models should just continue to have them.
It's not like we can get rid of the kernel side code for that all _anyway_.
Linus
