Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 8 Oct 2003 14:02:07 -0700 | From | "David S. Miller" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] cleanup of compat_ioctl functions |
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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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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