In article <20040111162832.GE602@drowsy.duskware.de>,
Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de> wrote:
>Simple question: we define __HAVE_RAS in <sys/types.h> if a $ARCH supports
>RAS. Actually, besides a few regression tests where I recently added it,
>nothing in userland tests __HAVE_RAS - AFAICT (and grep seems to agree).
>
>So I suggest to not export __HAVE_RAS to userland at all, and have
>everyone try rasctl() - which returns EOPNOTSUP if RAS is not available.
>Fixing the regression tests is easy.
>
>This would allow 32bit sparc64 kernels, which use sparc userland, to have
>full RAS support.
>
>Comments?

Yes, I think that would be a lot better.


christos