Re: [discuss] f_ops flag to speed up compatible ioctls in linux kernel

Andi Kleen
2004-09-08T06:58:35Z

> Wait, I think that a properly coded ioctl can always
> figure out this is a compat call by looking at the command
> (see example below).
> So maybe we can live with just one new entry point with these
> semantics?

I think two is cleaner. And needing 8 bytes more for a file_operations
structure is not exactly a catastrophe.

-Andi