On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 04:02:55PM +0200, Carsten Langgaard wrote: > > Much of the code is so generic it almost deserves to live in a directory > > even higher in the hierarchy. If you look at the 32-bit compat code for > > the various 64-bit architectures of Linux (in particular sparc64 and ia64), > > it's a single huge cut'n'paste session. Not much of that code is actually > > architecture dependant. > > That would be even better, but unfortunately a lot of the structures used in > the compat code is not exactly the same across architectures :-( > But it should be possible to merges a lot this stuff into a generic > (architecture independent) set of functions. True. The basic plan would be to provide the structure definitions and some architecture dependencies from headers and keep the generic compat code in a linux-32 directory. The syscalls are still fairly harmless - the true pain are all the ioctls that keep growing and changing like weed ... Ralf
