linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] ppp: move PPPIOCSPASS32/PPPIOCSACTIVE32 to ppp

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Date:   Thu, 30 Aug 2018 13:05:04 +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
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/5] ppp: move PPPIOCSPASS32/PPPIOCSACTIVE32 to
 ppp_generic.c

On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 04:03:29PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> PPPIOCSPASS and PPPIOCSACTIVE are implemented in ppp_generic and isdn_ppp,
> but the latter one doesn't work for compat mode in general, so we can
> move these two into the generic code.
> 
> Again, the best implementation I could come up with was to merge
> the compat handling into the regular ppp_ioctl() function and
> treating all ioctl commands as compatible.
> 
Acked-by: Guillaume Nault <g.nault@...halink.fr>