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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/compat_ioctl.c: add missing FS_IOC_FIEMAP support
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:07:53 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A775FB9.80600@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A7725AF.6090106@redhat.com>

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Mark Lord wrote:
>> (resending, no ack from anyone first time around).
> 
> I had previously sent a fix for this to the ext4 list as well, although
> w/o the added case for compat_ioctl or the extra #include.
> 
> Because this ioctl should be 100% compat everywhere, I don't -think-
> it's needed, and
> 
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=124872536713005&w=2
> 
> suffices....
..

Well, whichever of the two works best for the maintainers.

We need *something* for it upstream, and probably back in -stable too.
Otherwise this prevents using 64-bit kernels on 32-bit userland,
as Linus likes to recommend so often.  ;)

Cheers

  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-03 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-01 14:59 [PATCH] fs/compat_ioctl.c: add missing FS_IOC_FIEMAP support Mark Lord
2009-08-01 15:17 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-03 17:48 ` Mark Lord
2009-08-03 18:00   ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-03 18:00   ` Eric Sandeen
2009-08-03 22:07     ` Mark Lord [this message]
2009-08-03 22:21       ` Eric Sandeen
2009-08-03 23:22       ` Andrew Morton
2009-08-04 10:39         ` Arnd Bergmann

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