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SubjectRe: is avoiding compat ioctls possible?
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From: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:22:18 +1000

> Is there really no way to avoid compat ioctls? was I delusional in
> thinking there was?

If you use pointers in your interfaces in any way, no.

And for this drm_radeon_info thing the pointer is "pointless",
you're just returning 32-bit values to the user, just use
a u32 inside of the drm_radeon_info structure for the kernel
to place the result in.


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