From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ioctl cleanups: enable sg_io and serial stuff to be shared
Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 17:28:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030507152856.GF412@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030507135600.A22642@infradead.org>
Hi!
> > > > Only change *needed* in each architecture is moving A() macros into
> > > > compat.h, so that generic code can use it. Please apply,
> > >
> > > Please don't use A() in new code, we now have compat_ptr() and
> > > compat_uptr_t for this.
> >
> > Fixed now.
>
> Btw, if you really want to move all the 32bit ioctl compat code to the
> drivers a ->ioctl32 file operation might be the better choice..
Not sure if we are not too close to stable release to do that? And I
see no incremental way how to get there. Moving compatibility stuff
closer to drivers can be done close to stable release...
OTOH it forces pain where it belongs, and when someone invents stupid
ioctl, it puts pain on him... I like that.
Pavel
--
When do you have a heart between your knees?
[Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-07 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-05-07 11:51 ` ioctl cleanups: enable sg_io and serial stuff to be shared Arnd Bergmann
2003-05-07 12:41 ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-07 12:56 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-07 14:39 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-07 15:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-07 14:07 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-08 10:46 ` Gerd Knorr
2003-05-08 15:16 ` Ben Collins
2003-05-08 15:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-08 15:37 ` Ben Collins
2003-05-08 19:34 ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-08 19:27 ` Ben Collins
2003-05-08 20:06 ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-08 19:47 ` Ben Collins
2003-05-08 20:09 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-08 20:26 ` David Mosberger
2003-05-08 20:33 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-05-08 21:11 ` David Mosberger
2003-05-08 15:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2003-05-07 15:28 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2003-05-07 16:04 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-07 19:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2003-05-07 18:12 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-07 23:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2003-05-08 10:35 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-07 22:20 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-08 20:33 ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-08 20:43 ` David S. Miller
2003-05-08 23:03 ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-08 23:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2003-05-08 22:48 ` Arnd Bergmann
2003-05-08 23:22 ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-07 13:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2003-05-07 14:01 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-07 15:16 ` Pavel Machek
2003-05-07 15:46 ` Arnd Bergmann
2003-05-07 16:07 ` Jens Axboe
2003-05-07 16:20 ` Arnd Bergmann
2003-05-07 10:27 Pavel Machek
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