Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 8 May 2003 15:47:18 -0400 | From | Ben Collins <> | Subject | Re: ioctl cleanups: enable sg_io and serial stuff to be shared |
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On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 10:06:30PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 09:34:30PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > CONFIG_COMPAT is pretty much constant depending only on > > > architecture. I see no point in complicating this. > > > > I don't think so. Sparc64 and ia64 I know allow you to disable 32bit > > compatibility. I'd be surprised if the other 32/64 architectures > didn't. > > > Really? I thought sparc64 has no real 64-bit userland? > > Okay, it might make sense on x86-64, but I do not think savings are > worth the trouble.
I never said it was worth just that effort. What I said was is that the smarter change of using a compat_ioctl in the fops has the cool side affect of allowing that to happen. Not that I ever thought it was worth making huge changes to the infrastructure.
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