Re: [PATCH] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support from ia64.

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"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> This has been broken since May 2008 when Al Viro killed altroot support.
> Since nobody has complained, it would appear that there are no users of
> this code (A plausible theory since the main OSVs that support ia64 prefer
> to use the IA32-EL software emulation).
>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>

Reading old email ... one should note that some of that code 
lives on in the x86-64 32bit emulation. I copied some code 
(not all, other was written from scratch or from other archs)
from ia64 when I did that.

R.I.P.

-And

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