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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/17] BLOCK: Move the loop device ioctl compat stuff to the loop driver [try #2]
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 12:01:56 +0100
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To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:

> My idea was to do the copy_from_user in loop_set_status_compat instead
> of loop_info64_from_compat, but your solution should be completely
> equivalent.

This way will have used less stack when it gets to the main part of the loop
driver.

David