From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
airlied@linux.ie, dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
andi@firstfloor.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: is avoiding compat ioctls possible?
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:09:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091118090913.GA9505@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <21d7e9970911171626m216d35ddu4c4c3189edfd37cc@mail.gmail.com>
> Doing all these out-of-line hidden over here in a separate file just
> seems crazy,
> and I'm having trouble wondering why ppl consider it a better idea at all.
The separate file is on the way out, the modern way is to use
->compat_ioctl in the driver itself. Near all drivers except
for a few exceptions like DRM put it into the same file.
I think you should just move the code around in DRM too
and drop the separate file.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-18 9:09 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
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 [this message]
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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