Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g0VHER526659 for linux-xfs-outgoing; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:14:27 -0800 Received: from Cantor.suse.de (ns.suse.de [213.95.15.193]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g0VHENd26637 for ; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 09:14:23 -0800 Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Hermes.suse.de [213.95.15.136]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83D8E1E2E3; Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:14:15 +0100 (MET) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 17:14:15 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: "David S. Miller" Cc: kaos@sgi.com, a.gruenbacher@computer.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: extended attributes interface Message-ID: <20020131171415.A22647@wotan.suse.de> References: <20020130.144647.21928212.davem@redhat.com> <5366.1012432255@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> <20020130.151217.102576862.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020130.151217.102576862.davem@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i Sender: owner-linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Status: O Content-Length: 481 Lines: 16 On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 03:12:17PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Keith Owens > Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 10:10:55 +1100 > > Sparc64 and mips64 are a problem as long as the kernel is 64 bit and > userspace is 32 bit. > > Read this as: forever. Because we have several years worth of users > with 32-bit userland distributions on at least sparc64. The x86-64 project will maintain/extend it "forever" at least if nobody else will do. -Andi