From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754573AbZBPUF7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:05:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751864AbZBPUFv (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:05:51 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:59505 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751488AbZBPUFu (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:05:50 -0500 Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:04:34 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Bill Nottingham Cc: Jiri Kosina , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Declare PIO_CMAP/GIO_CMAP as compatbile ioctls. Message-Id: <20090216120434.ce891a32.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20090216172318.GB26018@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> References: <1234279525-25143-1-git-send-email-notting@redhat.com> <20090215134144.c29913d9.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090216172318.GB26018@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:23:18 -0500 Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Could you please give your Acked-by for it so that I can > > > merge, or take it through your tree completely? > > > > afaict this fix is needed all the way back to 2.6.tiny. I merged it > > with 2.6.29 intentions. Also tagged as needed in 2.6.25.x and later. > > So, is there some way to do static analysis on the kernel source to > find *all* ioctls that aren't marked as compatible, and don't have > specific compat handlers? Not that I am aware of. Julia Lawall might be able to cook up such a thing.