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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
	Linux and Kernel Video <video4linux-list@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: v4l & compat_ioctl
Date: 28 Mar 2008 12:25:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y783jdjo.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47ECD0CF.1020003@gmail.com>

Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> writes:

> wouldn't make sense to add v4l ioctls to ioctl_start
> (fs/compat_ioctl.c) table to allow i386 stuff such as skype to run
> video on x86_64?

Don't make it a question.

In general any ioctl in any driver runnable on any 64bit
architecture that has a 32bit compat layer should have compat 
support. Not having it is a bug.

However the new standard way to do this is to not 
add new stuff into compat_ioctl.c, but define ->compat_ioctl
entry points in the low level drivers (and ideally converted
them to ->unlocked_ioctl too while you're at it)

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-28 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-28 11:04 v4l & compat_ioctl Jiri Slaby
2008-03-28 11:25 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-03-28 11:31   ` Jiri Slaby
2008-03-28 11:38     ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-28 12:22       ` Jiri Slaby
2008-03-28 13:35         ` Andi Kleen
2008-03-28 17:24           ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-03-28 17:26             ` Jiri Slaby
2008-03-28 17:47               ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2008-03-28 18:07                 ` Jiri Slaby

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