+ /*
+ * Historically this function used to assume that sizeof(unsigned long)
+ * is the same in userspace and kernelspace. This lead to problems
+ * for configurations with multiple ABIs such a the MIPS o32 and 64
+ * ABIs supported on the same kernel. So now we support read of both
+ * 4 and 8 bytes and assume that's the sizeof(unsigned long) in the
+ * userspace ABI.
+ */
+ if (count != sizeof(unsigned int) && count != sizeof(unsigned long))