linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.3-rc5

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Date:	Thu, 01 Mar 2012 09:47:10 -0500
From:	Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.3-rc5

On 12-02-28 01:30 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Mark Lord <kernel@...savvy.com> wrote:
>>
>> The i8k driver is still b0rked for COMPAT use in linux-3.2.xx,
>> and I don't think my patch got picked up by anyone for 3.3 yet:
>
> I really don't like your patch.
..

Heh, I think we agree on that point.  I hate it.  :)

> Quite frankly, I think the right solution is to fix the kernel
> interface to the right type (int) that is the same. But because we
> don't want to change the user interface, let's make the kernel
> *accept* the 8-byte entity and just change it into a 4-byte size, and
> leave the user-space visible ioctl numbers the same broken crap - it's
> not like the other ioctl numbers had the right size *either*...
>
> IOW, have something like the attached in the ioctl handler (and then
> we need to also add the compat handler, as in your patch).
>
> Does this (with your compat_ioctl wrapper addition) also work for you?


It's close (after adding a missing left-paren), but not 100% working yet.
In particular, this command fails to get valid data:  i8kctl bios

    ioctl(3, I8K_BIOS_VERSION, 0xbfc543c8)  = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)

That's the original issue I first noticed which prompted me to try
and get things to roughly behave again.

I think all (or at least most) of the other ioctls appear to be working though.
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