linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 22/27] [AARCH64] ILP32: support stat syscall family

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1606211045120.4526@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2016 10:46:05 +0000
From:	Joseph Myers <joseph@...esourcery.com>
To:	Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>
CC:	<libc-alpha@...rceware.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<arnd@...db.de>, <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	<marcus.shawcroft@....com>, <philb@....org>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<szabolcs.nagy@....com>, <maxim.kuvyrkov@...aro.org>,
	<pinskia@...il.com>, Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 22/27] [AARCH64] ILP32: support stat syscall family

On Tue, 21 Jun 2016, Yury Norov wrote:

> From: Yury Norov <yury.norov@...il.com>
> 
> stat and statfs structures has their layouts identical to lp64
> after changing off_t, ino_t etc sizes to 64-bit. It means we can
> pass it to kernel same way as lp64 does.

This should be implemented in a way suitable for future architectures to 
use without needing lots of new sysdeps files in every architecture.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@...esourcery.com