From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sam Ravnborg Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2020 20:54:36 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] fbdev: stop using compat_alloc_user_space Message-Id: <20200924205436.GP1223313@ravnborg.org> List-Id: References: <20200918100812.1447443-1-arnd@arndb.de> <20200918124808.GD438822@phenom.ffwll.local> In-Reply-To: <20200918124808.GD438822@phenom.ffwll.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Arnd Bergmann , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , "David S . Miller" , hch@lst.de, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Daniel/Arnd. On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 02:48:08PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote: > 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? Hi Daniel - I read the above as an a-b. And Arnd did not take the bait it seems. Hi Arnd. checkpatch complained about some whitespace, which I fixed while applying. Will push to drm-misc-next tomorrow unless I hear anything else. Sam > -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 > _______________________________________________ > dri-devel mailing list > dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel