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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:21:06 -0800 From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> To: Ian Kent <raven@...maw.net> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, thomas@...3r.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Subject: Re: Linux 3.3-rc4 On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 9:06 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote: > > So it really is limited to only x86. Oh, and if people really are using "uname()" to figure out that they are running a 64-bit kernel, then we should probably make uname() use "is_compat_task()" instead of checking the PER_LINUX32 personality. So we already do have support for returning a different machine-name to 32-bit binaries, but it uses the "personality" thing that nobody cares about, rather than the compat layer. Looks like purely historical reasons. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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