From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: From Eric Anholt:
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 16:43:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040511234329.GA27242@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200405112334.i4BNYdjO018918@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 07:34:39PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 12 May 2004 00:20:51 BST, Dave Airlie said:
>
> > I just looked at drm.h and nearly all the ioctls use int, this file is
> > included in user-space applications also at the moment, I'm worried
> > changing all ints to __u32 will break some of these, anyone on DRI list
> > care to comment?
>
> Is this a case where somebody is *really* including kernel headers in userspace
> and we need to smack them, or are they using a copy that's been sanitized
> (and possibly fixed)?
Don't know, but how are you dealing with the issue that an "int" is
different for different kernel sizes (64 vs 32) and userspace too.
That's why you can't use it in an ioctl and expect things to work
properly.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-11 23:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200405112211.i4BMBQDZ006167@hera.kernel.org>
2004-05-11 22:22 ` From Eric Anholt: Greg KH
2004-05-11 23:17 ` Dave Airlie
2004-05-11 23:20 ` Dave Airlie
2004-05-11 23:34 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-05-11 23:43 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-05-12 0:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-05-12 0:12 ` Greg KH
2004-05-12 0:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-05-11 23:46 ` ioctls in drm.h Dave Airlie
2004-05-13 1:39 ` From Eric Anholt: Eric Anholt
2004-05-12 1:07 ` Jon Smirl
2004-05-12 1:15 ` Greg KH
2004-05-12 22:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-13 16:54 ` Egbert Eich
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