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Re: CVS Update@oss.sgi.com: linux

To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: CVS Update@oss.sgi.com: linux
From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 18:26:22 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>, linux-origin@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20000625174719.B893@bacchus.dhis.org>
Organization: Technical University of Gdansk
Reply-to: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> Do you know of any users for those fields?  I don't and we don't even
> properly initialize them, so I'd prefer to remove them - before some
> autoconf scripts detects and and uses them.  My prefered solution would
> be to remove those fields, too.

 Hmm, I just noticed GNU tar uses st_fstype whenever available to check
for nfs filesystems.

 Ralf, we still need to change kernel's struct stat64.  If we want it be
the same as mips64's struct stat, given the port's immaturity it might
still be the right time to change the latter one. 

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