linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] [MTD] compat

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Date:	Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:43:47 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Kevin Cernekee <kpc.mtd@...il.com>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...ia.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux MTD <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] [MTD] compat_ioctl cleanup

On Thursday 09 April 2009, Kevin Cernekee wrote:

>    
> 1) Move the MEMREADOOB/MEMWRITEOOB compat_ioctl wrappers from
> fs/compat_ioctl.c into mtdchar.c .  Original request was here:
> 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/1/295

Very nice cleanup, thanks for doing this!

> 2) Add missing COMPATIBLE_IOCTL lines, so that mtd-utils does not error
> out when running in 64/32 compatibility mode.

This looks correct, but I think it would be better to just remove all
those lines from fs/compat_ioctl.c and add a default: statement in
mtd_compat_ioctl that calls mtd_ioctl for all ioctl numbers that
don't have an explicit handler.

	Arnd <><
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