linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 3/5] ppp: move PPPIOCSCOMPRESS32 to ppp-generic.c

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Message-ID: <20180830110459.GA19111@alphalink.fr>
Date:   Thu, 30 Aug 2018 13:04:59 +0200
From:   Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     paulus@...ba.org, linux-ppp@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, mitch@...oth.com, mostrows@...thlink.net,
        jchapman@...alix.com, xeb@...l.ru, davem@...emloft.net,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@...tuozzo.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 3/5] ppp: move PPPIOCSCOMPRESS32 to ppp-generic.c

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 04:03:28PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> PPPIOCSCOMPRESS is only implemented in ppp_generic, so it's best to move
> the compat handling there. My first approach was to keep it in a new
> ppp_compat_ioctl() function, but it turned out to be much simpler to do
> it in the regular ioctl handler, by allowing both structure layouts to
> be handled directly there.
> 
Acked-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>