Re: [PATCH] cleanup compat ioctl handling

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Apr 10 2007 - 12:14:42 EST


On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:10:02PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> writes:
>
> > Merge all compat ioctl handling into compat_ioctl.c instead of splitting
> > it over compat.c and compat_ioctl.c. This also allows to get rid of
> > ioctl32.h
>
> Looks good.
>
> If someone feels the need to do more cleanup here -- it would be also
> nice to move more handlers to be in ->compat_ioctl and in their respective
> files than so much compat_ioctl.

Arnd had a huge patch series for that that somehow got lost. It would
be nice if someone with a little time on his hands could revive parts of
it.

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