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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: INPUT_COMPAT_TEST
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 01:04:53 -0700
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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

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