Re: compat ioctl32 for /dev/snapshot?

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Sun Jul 12 2009 - 11:07:35 EST


On Sunday 12 July 2009, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> As I mentioned in my first email, I'm not the right person to
> do the patch. But regardless, I spent about a day understanding
> this stuff (or trying to, anyway) - 100% useless day - and when
> I thought I have a patch someone else spoken up and said this
> way (compat_ioctl) is the wrong approach now. And sent another,
> also trivial patch, adding compat calls right to the proper
> place in kernel/power.c. Which (the patch) has been ignored
> too.

I never got a reply from you saying whether or not the patch
I sent actually worked. If you or someone else can confirm it,
I'll resend with the fixes you mentioned.

Arnd <><
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