linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fix build failure in hiddev

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Date:	Mon, 3 Mar 2008 11:36:01 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
cc:	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, Alexander <pikachu@...lennium.udm.ru>,
	bunk@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix build failure in hiddev_ioctl with gcc 3.2

On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Jean Delvare wrote:

> Fix build failure in hiddev_ioctl with gcc 3.2:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10121
> The trick is to move the handling of ioctls which need to allocate
> memory to separate functions.

Hmm, I can't say I like doing these shuffles just because of gcc 3.2 
behvior ... but as there are apparently already other patches in Linus' 
tree which did just that, I will have to follow this precedent.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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