From: linux@MichaelGeng.de (Michael Geng)
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: video_usercopy() enforces change of VideoText IOCTLs since 2.6.8
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 16:42:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041013144206.GA4133@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1097665248.4421.9.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 12:00:48PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2004-10-11 at 17:21, Michael Geng wrote:
> > Thank you! Andrew, could you please forward the patch?
> > Suggestion for a comment line:
> > Videotext: IOCTLs changed to match _IO macros in linux/ioctl.h
>
> But have any of them changed ioctl number in the process and broken
> compatibility ?
No compatibility is broken, because old IOCTLs are remapped to new
ones in the driver. The driver properly handles both old and new
IOCTLs after applying the patch. No user space programs have to be
changed or recompiled.
Michael
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-13 14:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-07 16:54 video_usercopy() enforces change of VideoText IOCTLs since 2.6.8 Michael Geng
2004-10-08 10:52 ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-08 21:00 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-09 9:28 ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-09 11:28 ` Michael Geng
2004-10-09 12:18 ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-10 8:55 ` Michael Geng
2004-10-11 15:14 ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-11 16:21 ` Michael Geng
2004-10-13 11:00 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-13 14:42 ` Michael Geng [this message]
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