Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 07 May 2003 07:07:29 -0700 (PDT) | | Subject | Re: ioctl cleanups: enable sg_io and serial stuff to be shared | | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 11:12:03 -0400
On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 07:39:00AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 05:56, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Btw, if you really want to move all the 32bit ioctl compat code to the > > drivers a ->ioctl32 file operation might be the better choice.. > > I can't believe I never thought of that. :-) Likewise. That's a good idea...
But, of course, name it compat_ioctl() not ioctl32. The compat layer is not only about 32-bit compatibility even though that is all that it is used for currently. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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