From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
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"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@oracle.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] compat_ioctl: move tape handling into drivers
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2018 17:36:46 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a0evhaJGL_XdUjQhJDGyAh01UjLFkKx-Cq21htXmFsY2A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180909043746.GF19965@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Sun, Sep 9, 2018 at 6:38 AM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2018 at 04:28:17PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > MTIOCPOS and MTIOCGET are incompatible between 32-bit and 64-bit user
> > space, and traditionally have been translated in fs/compat_ioctl.c.
> >
> > To get rid of that translation handler, move a corresponding
> > implementation into each of the four drivers implementing those commands.
> >
> > The interesting part of that is now in a new linux/mtio.h header that
> > wraps the existing uapi/linux/mtio.h header and provides an abstraction
> > to let drivers handle both cases easily.
>
> Ugh... Frankly, this bool compat passed all way down looks wrong.
> I can live with that; the question is whether block folks will be
> OK with that thing...
I have tried to come up with an alternative, but couldn't really find anything
that is less ugly. Since nobody else complained, I'll resend this version
along with the other patches.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-11 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-08 14:28 [PATCH 01/11] compat_ioctl: remove keyboard ioctl translation Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 02/11] compat_ioctl: remove HIDIO translation Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 03/11] compat_ioctl: remove translation for sound ioctls Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-09 4:16 ` Al Viro
2018-09-11 19:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 04/11] compat_ioctl: remove isdn ioctl translation Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 05/11] compat_ioctl: remove IGNORE_IOCTL() Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 06/11] compat_ioctl: remove /dev/random commands Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-09 4:11 ` Al Viro
2018-09-11 20:26 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-12 5:28 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2018-09-12 14:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-13 6:42 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2018-09-13 8:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 07/11] compat_ioctl: remove joystick ioctl translation Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 08/11] compat_ioctl: remove PCI " Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 09/11] compat_ioctl: remove /dev/raw " Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 10/11] compat_ioctl: remove last RAID handling code Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-08 14:28 ` [PATCH 11/11] compat_ioctl: move tape handling into drivers Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-09 4:37 ` Al Viro
2018-09-11 15:36 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2018-09-11 20:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
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