Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:01:36 +1000 | Subject | Re: is avoiding compat ioctls possible? | From | Dave Airlie <> |
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On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:25 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote: > From: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:22:18 +1000 > >> Is there really no way to avoid compat ioctls? was I delusional in >> thinking there was? > > If you use pointers in your interfaces in any way, no. > > And for this drm_radeon_info thing the pointer is "pointless", > you're just returning 32-bit values to the user, just use > a u32 inside of the drm_radeon_info structure for the kernel > to place the result in.
The plan for that was to expand it later, for now 32-bit was all we used.
Dave.
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