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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3]: Blktapctrl compatibility layer

To: Chris Lalancette <clalance@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3]: Blktapctrl compatibility layer
From: "Ryan O'Connor" <rjo@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:31:45 -0700
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On Wed, Jul 09, 2008 at 02:26:01AM +0200, Chris Lalancette wrote:
> I originally had just changed the NEWINTF ioctl to send over 48-bits of
> information, which works on 64-bit but not on 32-bit (since the arg is an
> unsigned long).  Additionally, the previous changes would break an older
> userland against a new kernel.  For that reason, introduce a new ioctl
> (NEWINTF_EXT) that fixes both of these problems.  This is the dom0 userland 
> side.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 

I tested this lats night, and I see that it's been committed. I can
confirm that it resolves the issue reported by Chris Head.

thanks,
R
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Ryan O'Connor <rjo@xxxxxxxxx>

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