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From: Michael Hunold <hunold@convergence.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC][2.5] generic_usercopy() function
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 11:32:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3ECDEA97.8070004@convergence.de> (raw)

Hello all,

especially the Video4Linux-driver rely intensively on the 
video_usercopy() function, which handles the copying of userspace 
arguments of ioctls with a simply callback mechanism.

Recently the dvb-core has been added which needs the same function. 
Because of the fact that the core is independent of Video4Linux, the 
code was duplicated to a dvb_usercopy() function.

In order to prevent this code duplication, introducing a 
generic_usercopy() function to lib/ is one possibilty.

The appended 4 patches do the following:

01-introduce.diff:
- remove video_usercopy() from videodev.c
- add generic_usercopy() to "lib/usecopy.c" and update the build system

02-video.diff:
- change all users of video_usercopy() to use generic_usercopy() instead

03-radio.diff:
- change all users of video_usercopy() to use generic_usercopy() instead

04-dvb.diff
- remove dvb_usercopy() from the dvb core and fix it to use 
generic_usercopy() instead.

The diffs are against 2.5.69.

Comments are very appreciated. 8-)
Is there a possibility to get this into the kernel?

CU
Michael.


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