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SubjectRe: [PATCH] cleanup of compat_ioctl functions
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003 22:26:15 +0200
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:

> Well, in the light of 'strictly bug fixes only', it was probably too
> much search&replace already. I guess I'll have to prepare a new patch
> that just fixes the bugs in the current s390 compat_ioctl code and not
> use fs/compat_ioctl.c in 2.6.0.

That doesn't make any sense, the fact that fs/compat_ioctl.c isn't
using the proper compat user pointer accessor macros is a bug,
so just fix that.

It defeats the whole purpose of this compat layer if people still
need to duplicate the code in some cases.
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