> > This is generic part of sys32_ioctl -> compat_ioctl. Please apply,
>
> Thanks for this - you saved me a headache :-)
Well, I fear total sum of headache stayed constant ;-).
Anyway, producing these patches seems "easy" compared to actually
merging them. You seem to have some experience with this, would you be
willing to help?
> Some comments:
>
> > --- clean/kernel/compat.c 2003-03-03 23:39:39.000000000 +0100
> > +++ linux/kernel/compat.c 2003-02-20 10:48:21.000000000 +0100
>
> All this really belongs in fs/compat.c ...
>
> One thing that Linus (and I) wanted from the compatability layer is
> to try to keep all 32 bit assumptions out of the generic code - I
> understand that this my not be possible, but we would like to try.
>
> So maybe you could start by changing ioctl32 to compat_ioctl everywhere -
> I know that this is just cosmetic, but it gives the better impression of
> what the code is about ...
I thought about that, but I fear resulting diff would be too big (and
would bitrot extremely quickly). I thought I'd try to merge simple (&
small) stuff first, to see how bit it will be.....
Pavel
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