Re: is avoiding compat ioctls possible?

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Oct 28 2009 - 08:16:49 EST


From: Arnd Bergmann <arndbergmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:13:32 +0100

> IMHO a better way to handle the radeon specific ioctls would be to
> avoid the compat_alloc_user_space and just define the common
> function taking a kernel pointer, with two implementations of the
> copy operation:

Agreed, that would be a great follow-on patch to mine.
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