From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Philip Langdale <philipl@overt.org>,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: INPUT_COMPAT_TEST
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 01:04:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E180BA5.4080808@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110709003508.GC28623@core.coreip.homeip.net>
On 07/08/2011 05:35 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> Input only need to do this compat stuff on read/write paths so maybe if
> you add plumbing similar to compat_ioctl we could switch owver to it.
>
The problem is that read/write ties into a large number of system calls,
and input is the *only* subsystem which needs it.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-09 8:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-08 18:45 INPUT_COMPAT_TEST H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-08 20:46 ` INPUT_COMPAT_TEST Dmitry Torokhov
2011-07-08 22:22 ` INPUT_COMPAT_TEST H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-08 22:37 ` INPUT_COMPAT_TEST Dmitry Torokhov
2011-07-08 22:44 ` INPUT_COMPAT_TEST Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
2011-07-08 23:18 ` INPUT_COMPAT_TEST H. Peter Anvin
2011-07-09 0:35 ` INPUT_COMPAT_TEST Dmitry Torokhov
2011-07-09 8:04 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-09-07 18:16 ` INPUT_COMPAT_TEST Dmitry Torokhov
2011-09-07 18:22 ` INPUT_COMPAT_TEST H. Peter Anvin
2011-09-07 18:37 ` INPUT_COMPAT_TEST Dmitry Torokhov
2011-09-07 18:40 ` INPUT_COMPAT_TEST H. Peter Anvin
2011-09-07 18:54 ` INPUT_COMPAT_TEST Dmitry Torokhov
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