On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 07:39:52PM +0000, Helge Deller wrote: > automount-support is broken on the parisc architecture, because the existing > #if list does not include a check for defined(__hppa__). The HPPA (parisc) > architecture is similiar to other 64bit Linux targets where we have to define > autofs_wqt_t (which is passed back and forth to user space) as int type which > has a size of 32bit across 32 and 64bit kernels. > > During the discussion on the mailing list, H. Peter Anvin suggested to invert > the #if list since only specific platforms (specifically those who do not have > a 32bit userspace, like IA64 and Alpha) should have autofs_wqt_t as unsigned > long type. > > This suggestion is probably the best way to go, since Arm64 (and maybe > others?) > seems to have a non-working automounter. So in the long run even for other new > upcoming architectures this inverted check seem to be the best solution, since > it will not require them to change this #if again (unless they are 64bit > only). > > Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <[email protected]> > CC: James Bottomley <[email protected]> > CC: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> > CC: Rolf Eike Beer <[email protected]> > CC: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> > CC: Ian Kent <[email protected]>
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