Re: [PATCH] Declare PIO_CMAP/GIO_CMAP as compatbile ioctls.

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Feb 16 2009 - 15:06:00 EST


On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:23:18 -0500 Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > > Could you please give your Acked-by for it so that I can
> > > merge, or take it through your tree completely?
> >
> > afaict this fix is needed all the way back to 2.6.tiny. I merged it
> > with 2.6.29 intentions. Also tagged as needed in 2.6.25.x and later.
>
> So, is there some way to do static analysis on the kernel source to
> find *all* ioctls that aren't marked as compatible, and don't have
> specific compat handlers?

Not that I am aware of. Julia Lawall might be able to cook up such
a thing.
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