Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Dec 2002 12:22:36 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Start of compat32.h (again) |
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Hi!
> What's the plan to attack 32-bit ioctls? > ... > but I guess that's going to cause objections? > > Yes, a huge dragon to slay for sure. > > To be honest, I'm happy with what's possible right now. > SIOCDEVPRIVATE was the biggest problem and that can be > gradually phased out. > > Let's attack the easy stuff first, then we can retry finding > a nicer solution to the ioctl bits. > > There are places where real work is needed, for example emulation > of drivers/usb/core/devio.c is nearly impossible without adding > some code to devio.c It keeps around user pointers, and doesn't > write to the area during that syscall but at some later time > as the result of another system call.
Right option might be to kill devio.c :-). It has other problems, too, IIRC.
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