linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] compat_ioctl requires CONFIG

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Date:	Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:17:14 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Sebastian Siewior <sebastian@...akpoint.cc>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat_ioctl requires CONFIG_BLOCK

On Saturday 21 July 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > Adding #ifdef around an #include is considered bad style. Better just
> > make loop.h compile without any conditionals. Does the below
> > patch work for you?
> 
> That patch looks good, but even better would be adding a compat_ioctl
> handler to the loop driver.  IIRC you even have an old patch for that 

No, that doesn't fly in this case. The loop driver actually has a
compat_ioctl method, but the problem is that some tools try to
call this ioctl on devices other than loop.

We could of course add a fallback handler to compat_blkdev_ioctl(),
but I'm not convinced that this is better than the IGNORE_IOCTL
helper, unless we eventually move all of fs/compat_ioctl.c into
drivers.

	Arnd <><
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