compatibility, it broke programs using devstat, under 32-bit compatibility and
not.
It's very difficult to fix the identifiers used by devstat, so this change is
simply being backed out. Since changes to 3rd-party code seem likely, and may be
necessary to properly fix 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernel, it would seem better
to make more invasive changes to fix GEOM's problems with 32-bit compatibility in
general.
The right thing to do is to replace all of the use of pointers as opaque
identifiers with a fixed-size (64-bit or even 32-bit should be enough for tracking
unique GEOM elments) field. That probably maintains source compatibility with
most GEOM consumers, and allows xml2tree to make better assumptions about how to
decode the identifiers.
Submitted by: Anton Yuzhaninov
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