Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jan 2005 21:44:31 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] macros to detect existance of unlocked_ioctl and ioctl_compat |
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On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:59:59AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:51:44 +0100 > Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote: > > > DaveM can probably give you more details since he tried unsucessfully > > to make it work. I think the problem is that there is no enough > > information for the compat layer to convert everything. > > When the usbfs async stuff writes back the status, we are no > longer within the original syscall/ioctl execution any more, > therefore we don't know if we're doing this for a compat task > or not.
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Thanks Dave for the update. I misremembered and I don't think I can fix this up for x86-64. We'll need a new interface of some sort.
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