From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: share COMPATIBLE_IOCTL()s across architectures
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 11:30:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200303201130.07163.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030320023843.GA22795@wotan.suse.de>
On Thursday 20 March 2003 03:38, Andi Kleen wrote:
> This would work for COMPATIBLE_IOCTLS, but the conversions handlers
> would need a new asm/ file for the macros.
If this is just about HANDLE_IOCTL, IOCTL_TABLE_START etc., they look
trivial enough to be put in asm/compat.h. They even appear to be
arch independent even though they have inline asm.
> They're declared with assembler
> magic to avoid declaring all the functions. This way you need less files.
Ah, I have always wondered why it is done in such a strange way for some
architectures.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-20 10:20 UTC|newest]
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[not found] ` <20030320001013$68b4@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-03-20 1:35 ` share COMPATIBLE_IOCTL()s across architectures Arnd Bergmann
2003-03-20 2:38 ` Andi Kleen
2003-03-20 10:30 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2003-03-20 19:35 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] <20030319232157.GA13415@elf.ucw.cz.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-03-20 0:08 ` Andi Kleen
2003-03-20 19:33 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-20 20:26 ` Andi Kleen
2003-03-21 10:24 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-19 23:21 Pavel Machek
2003-03-20 0:01 ` David S. Miller
2003-03-20 19:32 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-20 20:24 ` Andi Kleen
2003-03-21 10:21 ` Pavel Machek
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