From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Cc: robh+dt@kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, mark.rutland@arm.com,
devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
bjorn.andersson@linaro.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
bkumar@qti.qualcomm.com, thierry.escande@linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/6] misc: fastrpc: Add support for compat ioctls
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 11:59:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181212105932.GA1990@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181207163513.16412-7-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 04:35:13PM +0000, Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> This patch adds support for compat ioctl from 32 bits userland to
> Qualcomm fastrpc driver.
Ick, why?
Why not just fix up your ioctl structures to not need that at all? For
new code being added to the kernel, there's no excuse to have to have
compat structures anymore, just make your api sane and all should be
fine.
What prevents you from doing that and requiring compat support?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-12 10:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-07 16:35 [PATCH v2 0/6] misc: Add support to Qualcomm FastRPC driver Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-12-07 16:35 ` [PATCH v2 1/6] misc: dt-bindings: Add Qualcomm Fastrpc bindings Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-12-07 18:23 ` Mark Rutland
2018-12-10 11:17 ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-12-11 0:10 ` Bjorn Andersson
2018-12-11 9:27 ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-12-11 10:50 ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-12-07 16:35 ` [PATCH v2 2/6] misc: fastrpc: Add Qualcomm fastrpc basic driver model Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-12-07 16:35 ` [PATCH v2 3/6] misc: fastrpc: Add support for context Invoke method Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-12-10 14:55 ` kbuild test robot
2018-12-12 11:02 ` Greg KH
2018-12-12 11:14 ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-12-07 16:35 ` [PATCH v2 4/6] misc: fastrpc: Add support for create remote init process Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-12-07 16:35 ` [PATCH v2 5/6] misc: fastrpc: Add support for dmabuf exporter Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-12-07 16:35 ` [PATCH v2 6/6] misc: fastrpc: Add support for compat ioctls Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-12-12 10:59 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-12-12 11:44 ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-12-12 11:50 ` Greg KH
2018-12-12 12:26 ` Srinivas Kandagatla
2018-12-12 13:41 ` Greg KH
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