Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 8 May 2003 16:51:18 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: ioctl cleanups: enable sg_io and serial stuff to be shared |
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On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:16:43AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote: > How would the driver differentiate between .compat_ioctl == NULL being a > case where it should fail because there is no translation, or a case > where it should use the compatible .ioctl? Maybe there should be an > extra flag like use_compat_ioctl. So:
.compat_ioctl == NULL: fail .compat_ioctl == .ioctl: everythings fine, I read the docs
> This would also solve the current problem where a module that is > compiled with compat ioctl's using register_ioctl32_conversion() is not > usable on a kernel compiled without CONFIG_COMPAT, even though it very > well should be.
You mean you want to load the same binary module in differently compiled kernels? That's a flawed idea to start with..
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