Re: [uml-user] [PATCH 00/12] move compat_ioctl handling into drivers

[Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>]

On Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:26:55 +0000
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:

> This is the second series of patches on compat_ioctl handling,
> moving compat handlers into more drivers. Most of these
> patches consist on a part that adds a compat_ioctl method
> in one driver and another part removing the respective
> section from fs/compat_ioctl.c. The fs/compat_ioctl.c
> portion depends on other patches[1], but the driver code can
> be applied independently.
> 
> If some of you feel responsible for the code I patched, please
> look at my changes and if they are ok, either take them into
> your tree or give me an Acked-by for them.

I would take the md ones into my tree, but I suspect that if
everyone did that we would end up with lots of conflicts in
fs/compat_ioctl.c.

So how about I just take the changes to md.c, and give you an:

   Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

for the changes to fs/compat_ioctl.c
??

NeilBrown

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