Re: sys32_ioctl -> compat_ioctl -- generic

Stephen Rothwell (sfr@canb.auug.org.au)
Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:28:49 +1100


Hi Pavel,

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 00:21:22 +0100 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>
> This is generic part of sys32_ioctl -> compat_ioctl. Please apply,

Thanks for this - you saved me a headache :-)

Some comments:

> --- clean/kernel/compat.c 2003-03-03 23:39:39.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux/kernel/compat.c 2003-02-20 10:48:21.000000000 +0100

All this really belongs in fs/compat.c ...

One thing that Linus (and I) wanted from the compatability layer is
to try to keep all 32 bit assumptions out of the generic code - I
understand that this my not be possible, but we would like to try.

So maybe you could start by changing ioctl32 to compat_ioctl everywhere -
I know that this is just cosmetic, but it gives the better impression of
what the code is about ...

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
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