From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/compat_ioctl.c: add missing FS_IOC_FIEMAP support
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:21:30 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A7762EA.5070701@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A775FB9.80600@rtr.ca>
Mark Lord wrote:
> 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
>
Heh, it's probably far from the only ioctl missing a compat handler, but
yeah. :)
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-03 22:21 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
2009-08-03 22:21 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2009-08-03 23:22 ` Andrew Morton
2009-08-04 10:39 ` Arnd Bergmann
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=4A7762EA.5070701@sandeen.net \
--to=sandeen@sandeen.net \
--cc=akpm@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=lkml@rtr.ca \
--cc=sandeen@redhat.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox