Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 May 2003 11:37:46 -0400 | From | Ben Collins <> | Subject | Re: ioctl cleanups: enable sg_io and serial stuff to be shared |
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On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 04:51:18PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:16:43AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > > How would the driver differentiate between .compat_ioctl == NULL being a > > case where it should fail because there is no translation, or a case > > where it should use the compatible .ioctl? Maybe there should be an > > extra flag like use_compat_ioctl. So: > > .compat_ioctl == NULL: fail > .compat_ioctl == .ioctl: everythings fine, I read the docs
That makes sense aswell.
> > This would also solve the current problem where a module that is > > compiled with compat ioctl's using register_ioctl32_conversion() is not > > usable on a kernel compiled without CONFIG_COMPAT, even though it very > > well should be. > > You mean you want to load the same binary module in differently > compiled kernels? That's a flawed idea to start with..
I don't, but I don't see the point in it not working in this case.
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