From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Vetter Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 12:48:08 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] fbdev: stop using compat_alloc_user_space Message-Id: <20200918124808.GD438822@phenom.ffwll.local> List-Id: References: <20200918100812.1447443-1-arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <20200918100812.1447443-1-arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, "David S . Miller" , hch@lst.de On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 12:08:10PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > The fbdev code uses compat_alloc_user_space in a few of its > compat_ioctl handlers, which tends to be a bit more complicated > and error-prone than calling the underlying handlers directly, > so I would like to remove it completely. > > This modifies two such functions in fbdev, and removes another > one that is completely unused. > > Arnd > > Arnd Bergmann (3): > fbdev: simplify fb_getput_cmap() > fbdev: sbuslib: remove unused FBIOSCURSOR32 helper > fbdev: sbuslib: remove compat_alloc_user_space usage Looks all good, but we're also kinda looking for a new volunteer for handling fbdev patches ... drm-misc commit rights, still not interested? -Daniel > > drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 44 +++++------ > drivers/video/fbdev/sbuslib.c | 124 ++++++++++++++++++------------- > 2 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.27.0 > > _______________________________________________ > dri-devel mailing list > dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch