Re: share COMPATIBLE_IOCTL()s across architectures

Andi Kleen
2003-03-20T02:27:45Z

On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 02:35:30AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Why not simply move the common COMPATIBLE_IOCTLs and includes into
> kernel/compat_ioctl.c or similar? That would IMHO be cleaner and
> it does not need more preprocessing hacks.
> There can still be a second init_sys32_ioctl() copy to handle the arch
> specific list with additional translations.

This would work for COMPATIBLE_IOCTLS, but the conversions handlers
would need a new asm/ file for the macros. They're declared with assembler
magic to avoid declaring all the functions. This way you need less files.

-Andi