Re: [PATCH 3/3] sanitize building of fs/compat_ioctl.c

From: David S. Miller
Date: Tue Dec 13 2005 - 17:50:28 EST


From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:34:34 -0700

> The 64-bit code doesn't compile because Andi keeps blocking the
> is_compat_task() stuff.

The one place where I ever thought that was necessary, the
USB async userspace I/O operation stuff, was solved much more
cleanly with ->compat_ioctl() file_operations handlers.

What do you really still need it for at this point?

I also would like to avoid it if possible.
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