Re: ioctl cleanups: enable sg_io and serial stuff to be shared

[David Mosberger]

>>>>> On Thu, 8 May 2003 15:27:30 -0400, Ben Collins <[e-mail]> said:

  Ben> On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 09:34:30PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
  >> Hi!

  >> > This would also solve the current problem where a module that
  >> is > compiled with compat ioctl's using
  >> register_ioctl32_conversion() is not > usable on a kernel
  >> compiled without CONFIG_COMPAT, even though it very > well should
  >> be.

  >> CONFIG_COMPAT is pretty much constant depending only on
  >> architecture. I see no point in complicating this.

  Ben> I don't think so. Sparc64 and ia64 I know allow you to disable
  Ben> 32bit compatibility. I'd be surprised if the other 32/64
  Ben> architectures didn't.

Definitely.  I turn it off on a regular basis and expect to use it
even less in the future.

	--david