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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/7] fat: Fix VFAT_IOCTL_READDIR_xxx and cleanup for userland
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 11:57:03AM +0900, OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>>
>> "struct dirent" is a kernel type here, but is a **different type** in
>> userspace! This means both the structure and the IOCTL number is wrong!
>>
>> So, this adds new "struct __fat_dirent" to generate correct IOCTL
>> number. And kernel stuff moves to under __KERNEL__.
>
> Given that the current version can't actually work without defininig
> it's own dirent and thus ioctl number symbolic name I wonder if these
> ioctls are used at all? They must have been completely untested for
> a while, and I suspect we'd be better off just removing them.

I'm not sure whether all users doesn't use. (If user uses correct dirent
like I did to test in past, it generates correct number.)

Anyway, why is it better off? I think, if users which copied, this
patch shouldn't have any impact, and other users can use fixed version?
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>


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