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SubjectRe: [BACKPORT 4.4.y 02/25] ALSA: compress: add support for 32bit calls in a 64bit kernel
On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 04:43:53PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Ravindra Lokhande <rlokhande@nvidia.com>
>
> Compress offload does not support ioctl calls from a 32bit userspace
> in a 64 bit kernel. This patch adds support for ioctls from a 32bit
> userspace in a 64bit kernel
>
> Signed-off-by: Ravindra Lokhande <rlokhande@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
> (cherry picked from commit c10368897e104c008c610915a218f0fe5fa4ec96)
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> ---
> sound/core/compress_offload.c | 13 +++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

How is this not a "new feature"? What bug does this fix? Has this ever
worked in the past?

thanks,

greg k-h

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