Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [Bug 14537] New: missing compat_ioctl on x86_64 | Date | Sat, 7 Nov 2009 22:10:55 +0100 |
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On Saturday 07 November 2009, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Saturday 07 November 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > Actually... it would be nice to fix that one day, if someone submitted > > > nice patch... :-). > > > > It must be fixed in s2disk first, but that would probably require us to drop > > support for older kernels. Which is not unthinkable, but might hurt some > > users. > > You don't need to drop support for older kernels if s2disk simply tries the > new interface first and falls back to the current one if that fails.
Compat ioctls support is not possible with the old interface.
Thanks, Rafael
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