Re: ioctl cleanups: enable sg_io and serial stuff to be shared

[David S. Miller]

   From: Jeff Garzik <[e-mail]>
   Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 11:12:03 -0400

   On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 07:39:00AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
   > On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 05:56, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
   > > Btw, if you really want to move all the 32bit ioctl compat code to the
   > > drivers a ->ioctl32 file operation might be the better choice..
   > 
   > I can't believe I never thought of that. :-)
   
   Likewise.  That's a good idea...
   
But, of course, name it compat_ioctl() not ioctl32.  The compat layer
is not only about 32-bit compatibility even though that is all that it
is used for currently.