Re: uhid: broken interface: 32/64-bit compatibility

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 11:28:40AM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Feb 2013, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
> > > Here's my attempt to fix the issue.
> > > 
> > > Not sure if tricks with padding in a good idea. We can  just use __u64
> > > instead of pointer, but it will require update of userspace to silence
> > > cast warning and will cause warning if you will try to use updated
> > > userspace with old kernel headers.
> > > 
> > > Any comments?
> > 
> > This does not fix anything really, we simply have to deal with compat
> > interface.
> > 
> > Compiled but not tested.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> 
> Sorry for late response, I have been extremely busy doing some skiing :-)

Sounds good. At least someone has the right priorities ;)

-- 
Dmitry
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