Re: 2.6.27-rc4-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.26

Linus Torvalds
2008-08-27T23:12:20Z

On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> I wonder if I could essentially automate something to do the conversion..

Hmm. compat_ioctl() actually has exactly the same issue. Damn.

So you can't just add the new argument, you also have to _pass_ the
argument in the compat_ioctl handlers to the non-compat ones.

Linus