Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Mar 2003 03:38:43 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: share COMPATIBLE_IOCTL()s across architectures |
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 02:35:30AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > Why not simply move the common COMPATIBLE_IOCTLs and includes into > kernel/compat_ioctl.c or similar? That would IMHO be cleaner and > it does not need more preprocessing hacks. > There can still be a second init_sys32_ioctl() copy to handle the arch > specific list with additional translations.
This would work for COMPATIBLE_IOCTLS, but the conversions handlers would need a new asm/ file for the macros. They're declared with assembler magic to avoid declaring all the functions. This way you need less files.
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