From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: pavel@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cleanup of compat_ioctl functions
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 14:02:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031008140207.666a62c9.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200310082226.15104.arnd@arndb.de>
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 22:26:15 +0200
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> Well, in the light of 'strictly bug fixes only', it was probably too
> much search&replace already. I guess I'll have to prepare a new patch
> that just fixes the bugs in the current s390 compat_ioctl code and not
> use fs/compat_ioctl.c in 2.6.0.
That doesn't make any sense, the fact that fs/compat_ioctl.c isn't
using the proper compat user pointer accessor macros is a bug,
so just fix that.
It defeats the whole purpose of this compat layer if people still
need to duplicate the code in some cases.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-08 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-08 16:09 [PATCH] cleanup of compat_ioctl functions Arnd Bergmann
2003-10-08 19:29 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-08 20:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2003-10-08 21:02 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-10-08 21:35 ` Pavel Machek
2003-10-08 22:49 ` Arnd Bergmann
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