From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Declare PIO_CMAP/GIO_CMAP as compatbile ioctls.
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:04:34 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090216120434.ce891a32.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090216172318.GB26018@nostromo.devel.redhat.com>
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:23:18 -0500 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Could you please give your Acked-by for it so that I can
> > > merge, or take it through your tree completely?
> >
> > afaict this fix is needed all the way back to 2.6.tiny. I merged it
> > with 2.6.29 intentions. Also tagged as needed in 2.6.25.x and later.
>
> So, is there some way to do static analysis on the kernel source to
> find *all* ioctls that aren't marked as compatible, and don't have
> specific compat handlers?
Not that I am aware of. Julia Lawall might be able to cook up such
a thing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-16 20:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-10 15:25 [PATCH] Declare PIO_CMAP/GIO_CMAP as compatbile ioctls Bill Nottingham
2009-02-11 13:41 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-02-15 21:41 ` Andrew Morton
2009-02-16 17:23 ` Bill Nottingham
2009-02-16 20:04 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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2009-03-25 19:00 [PATCH] Add a 'wait-scan' command to /proc/scsi/scsi Bill Nottingham
2009-03-25 19:00 ` [PATCH] Declare PIO_CMAP/GIO_CMAP as compatbile ioctls Bill Nottingham
2009-03-25 19:02 ` Bill Nottingham
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