Re: 32-bit user suspend program on 64-bit kernel?

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On Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:04, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 15:05 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > Unfortunately the numbers of ioctls are not portable due to my rookie mistake
> > in the beginning (using void * in _IOW() and friends which passed with no
> > objections).
> > 
> > I'm ashamed of that, but it's probably too late to fix it. :-(
> 
> Bugger. What would be required to fix it?

Well, the change itself wouldn't be big (three #defines or so), but it would
break all of the existing setups.

Alternatively, we can add some ioctls that duplicate those with nonportable
numbers and tell people to use the new ones in the future (documentation
changes would be needed).

Greetings,
Rafael
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