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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: share COMPATIBLE_IOCTL()s across architectures
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:30:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303201130.07163.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030320023843.GA22795@wotan.suse.de>

On Thursday 20 March 2003 03:38, Andi Kleen wrote:

> This would work for COMPATIBLE_IOCTLS, but the conversions handlers
> would need a new asm/ file for the macros. 

If this is just about HANDLE_IOCTL, IOCTL_TABLE_START etc., they look 
trivial enough to be put in asm/compat.h. They even appear to be
arch independent even though they have inline asm.

>                                            They're declared with assembler
> magic to avoid declaring all the functions. This way you need less files.
Ah, I have always wondered why it is done in such a strange way for some
architectures.

	Arnd <><

  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-20 10:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20030320001013$67af@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <20030320001013$68b4@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-03-20  1:35   ` share COMPATIBLE_IOCTL()s across architectures Arnd Bergmann
2003-03-20  2:38     ` Andi Kleen
2003-03-20 10:30       ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2003-03-20 19:35       ` Pavel Machek
     [not found] <20030319232157.GA13415@elf.ucw.cz.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-03-20  0:08 ` Andi Kleen
2003-03-20 19:33   ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-20 20:26     ` Andi Kleen
2003-03-21 10:24       ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-19 23:21 Pavel Machek
2003-03-20  0:01 ` David S. Miller
2003-03-20 19:32   ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-20 20:24     ` Andi Kleen
2003-03-21 10:21       ` Pavel Machek

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