From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752913AbZKGUxE (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:53:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752873AbZKGUxC (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:53:02 -0500 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:60633 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752863AbZKGUw7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Nov 2009 15:52:59 -0500 From: Arnd Bergmann To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: Re: [Bug 14537] New: missing compat_ioctl on x86_64 Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 21:52:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.2 (Linux/2.6.31-14-generic; KDE/4.3.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Pavel Machek , Thomas Gleixner , LKML , Thierry Vignaud , bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org References: <20091107172038.GA1835@ucw.cz> <200911072006.36904.rjw@sisk.pl> In-Reply-To: <200911072006.36904.rjw@sisk.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200911072152.56586.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+FRDUCJTCJI7RRUfL/rGXwVs+vjqxIg3gIsdD fduPsaEhr8gx1FuidWiyynlqrtdlQgR+PZl/fpY5VcC2OItGun zq8OAUXKeiRS8iGzQRBvA== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Saturday 07 November 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Actually... it would be nice to fix that one day, if someone submitted > > nice patch... :-). > > It must be fixed in s2disk first, but that would probably require us to drop > support for older kernels. Which is not unthinkable, but might hurt some > users. You don't need to drop support for older kernels if s2disk simply tries the new interface first and falls back to the current one if that fails. Arnd <><