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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 20/26] compat_ioctl: remove translation for sound ioctls
On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:05:33 +0200,
Takashi Iwai wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 22:28:05 +0200,
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> > The SNDCTL_* and SOUND_* commands are the old OSS user interface.
> >
> > I checked all the sound ioctl commands listed in fs/compat_ioctl.c
> > to see if we still need the translation handlers. Here is what I
> > found:
> >
> > - sound/oss/ is (almost) gone from the kernel, this is what actually
> > needed all the translations
> > - The ALSA emulation for OSS correctly handles all compat_ioctl
> > commands already.
> > - sound/oss/dmasound/ is the last holdout of the original OSS code,
> > this is only used on arch/m68k, which has no 64-bit mode and
> > hence needs no compat handlers
> > - arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c may run in 64-bit mode with
> > 32-bit x86 user space underneath it. This rare corner case is
> > the only one that still needs the compat handlers.
> >
> > By adding a simple redirect of .compat_ioctl to .unlocked_ioctl in the
> > UML driver, we can remove all the COMPATIBLE_IOCTL() annotations without
> > a change in functionality. For completeness, I'm adding the same thing
> > to the dmasound file, knowing that it makes no difference.
> >
> > The compat_ioctl list contains one comment about SNDCTL_DSP_MAPINBUF and
> > SNDCTL_DSP_MAPOUTBUF, which actually would need a translation handler
> > if implemented. However, the native implementation just returns -EINVAL,
> > so we don't care.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
>
> This looks like a really nice cleanup. Thanks!
>
> Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Is this supposed to be taken via sound git tree, or would you apply
over yours? I'm fine in either way.


thanks,

Takashi

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