From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [patch 01/11] Move compat ioctl structs & numbers into xfs_ioctl32.h
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:54:51 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4924C36B.6090700@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49242FAC.2060208@sandeen.net>
Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> I must also say that I don't really like these _copying helpers at all,
>> just adding an explicit call to the underlying ioctl from them seems
>> much clener than dispatching control back to the main routine with a
>> changed argument and ioc number.
>
> Ok, either way is fine by me, was just following what was there already.
So I went off to do it this way, and while I certainly can, (I'm almost
done rewriting it this way) after a bit more thought I really don't see
much wrong with just translating in the 32-bit args for any ioctl which
is _IOW only... it doesn't seem that bad... any particular reason you're
against it?
-Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-20 1:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-19 4:44 [patch 00/11] RFC: compat ioctl fixes/cleanups/additions sandeen
2008-11-19 4:44 ` [patch 01/11] Move compat ioctl structs & numbers into xfs_ioctl32.h sandeen
[not found] ` <20081119145941.GA13050@infradead.org>
2008-11-19 15:24 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-11-20 1:54 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-11-19 4:44 ` [patch 02/11] Fix the compat XFS_IOC_FSGEOMETRY_V1 ioctl sandeen
2008-11-19 4:44 ` [patch 03/11] Add compat handlers for data & rt growfs ioctls sandeen
2008-11-19 4:44 ` [patch 04/11] Add compat handlers for swapext ioctl sandeen
2008-11-19 4:44 ` [patch 05/11] Make the bulkstat_one compat ioctl handling more sane sandeen
2008-11-19 4:44 ` [patch 06/11] Fix xfs_bulkstat_one size checks & error handling sandeen
2008-11-19 4:44 ` [patch 07/11] Fix compat XFS_IOC_FSBULKSTAT_SINGLE ioctl sandeen
2008-11-19 4:44 ` [patch 08/11] Hook up compat XFS_IOC_ATTRLIST_BY_HANDLE ioctl handler sandeen
2008-11-19 4:44 ` [patch 09/11] Hook up compat XFS_IOC_ATTRMULTI_BY_HANDLE " sandeen
[not found] ` <20081119151628.GI13050@infradead.org>
2008-11-19 15:30 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-11-19 4:44 ` [patch 10/11] Hook up compat XFS_IOC_FSSETDM_BY_HANDLE " sandeen
2008-11-19 4:44 ` [patch 11/11] Reorder xfs_ioctl32.c for some tidiness sandeen
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