Re: sys32_ioctl -> compat_ioctl -- generic

Stephen Rothwell (sfr@canb.auug.org.au)
Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:36:19 +1100

On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 00:21:22 +0100 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>
> +asmlinkage long compat_ioctl(unsigned int fd, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)

For consistancy, this should be called compat_sys_ioctl.

> +{
> + struct file * filp;

> + filp = fget(fd);

> + /* find the name of the device. */
> + if (path) {
> + struct file *f = fget(fd);

Is it really necessary to do another fget(fd) ?

Also, if you are adding this much code, you should add a copyright notice
to the top of the file ...

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@canb.auug.org.au
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