From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: airlied@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
arnd@arndb.de
Subject: Re: is avoiding compat ioctls possible?
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:25:53 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091027.192553.83746115.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970910271822p3751b2fdnd78e1bc3326b9b0b@mail.gmail.com>
From: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:22:18 +1000
> Is there really no way to avoid compat ioctls? was I delusional in
> thinking there was?
If you use pointers in your interfaces in any way, no.
And for this drm_radeon_info thing the pointer is "pointless",
you're just returning 32-bit values to the user, just use
a u32 inside of the drm_radeon_info structure for the kernel
to place the result in.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-28 2:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-28 1:22 is avoiding compat ioctls possible? Dave Airlie
2009-10-28 2:25 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-10-28 3:01 ` Dave Airlie
2009-10-28 2:53 ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-28 3:05 ` Dave Airlie
2009-10-28 3:19 ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-28 3:28 ` Dave Airlie
2009-10-28 3:34 ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-28 3:43 ` David Miller
2009-10-28 3:41 ` David Miller
2009-10-28 21:05 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-10-29 8:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-10-28 3:38 ` David Miller
2009-10-28 3:43 ` Dave Airlie
2009-10-28 3:45 ` David Miller
2009-10-28 3:51 ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-28 3:54 ` Dave Airlie
2009-10-28 5:28 ` David Miller
2009-10-28 5:42 ` Dave Airlie
2009-10-28 6:04 ` David Miller
2009-10-28 7:53 ` David Miller
2009-10-28 7:59 ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-28 8:11 ` David Miller
2009-10-28 8:19 ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-28 8:28 ` David Miller
2009-10-28 12:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-10-28 12:16 ` David Miller
2009-10-28 15:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-10-29 5:41 ` David Miller
2009-10-29 8:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-10-29 8:34 ` Heiko Carstens
2009-10-29 8:39 ` David Miller
2009-10-28 12:17 ` David Miller
2009-10-30 1:13 ` Dave Airlie
2009-10-30 10:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-18 0:26 ` Dave Airlie
2009-11-18 9:09 ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-18 14:42 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-10-28 3:37 ` David Miller
2009-10-28 4:36 ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-28 5:29 ` David Miller
2009-10-28 10:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
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