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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>,
	dan@dennedy.org, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix/add raw1394 CONFIG_COMPAT code
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 17:03:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705201703.37561.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464F900A.10900@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

On Sunday 20 May 2007, Stefan Richter wrote:
> 
> > Note that this data structure only needs conversion on x86_64 and ia64, but
> > not on powerpc and other 64 bit architectures that align __u64 also in
> > 32 bit mode.
> 
> Is this conversion just unnecessary or actually harmful on ppc64 and others?

With the current patch, the compat_ioctl function does not handle the ppc32
version of the structure at all, so it's broken there, it would at least
need a 

	case RAW1394_IOC_GET_CYCLE_TIMER:
		err = raw1394_ioctl(NULL, file, cmd, arg);
		break;

	Arnd <><

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-20 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-07  2:14 [PATCH] Fix/add raw1394 CONFIG_COMPAT code Petr Vandrovec
2007-05-07 16:40 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-15  3:52 ` Dan Dennedy
2007-05-15 22:59 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-15 23:00   ` [PATCH 1/3] ieee1394: raw1394: Fix read() for 32bit userland on 64bit kernel Stefan Richter
2007-05-15 23:01     ` [PATCH 2/3] ieee1394: raw1394: Fix write() " Stefan Richter
2007-05-15 23:02       ` [PATCH 3/3] ieee1394: raw1394: Add ioctl() " Stefan Richter
2007-05-15 23:51   ` [PATCH] Fix/add raw1394 CONFIG_COMPAT code Petr Vandrovec
2007-05-19 23:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-05-20  0:02   ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-20 15:03     ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2007-05-20 15:28       ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-20 15:37         ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-05-20 15:55           ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-21  7:28         ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-21 16:52           ` [PATCH] ieee1394: raw1394: Add ioctl() for 32bit userland on 64bit kernel, amendment Stefan Richter
2007-05-23  4:54         ` [PATCH] Fix/add raw1394 CONFIG_COMPAT code Dan Dennedy
2007-05-23  6:32           ` Stefan Richter

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