Re: [PATCH stable 4.9 00/21] Unbreak 32-bit DVB applications on 64-bit kernels

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Wed Jun 17 2020 - 00:39:50 EST




On 6/11/2020 9:45 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
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> On 6/5/2020 9:24 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> Hi all,
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>> This long patch series was motivated by backporting Jaedon's changes
>> which add a proper ioctl compatibility layer for 32-bit applications
>> running on 64-bit kernels. We have a number of Android TV-based products
>> currently running on the 4.9 kernel and this was broken for them.
>>
>> Thanks to Robert McConnell for identifying and providing the patches in
>> their initial format.
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>> In order for Jaedon's patches to apply cleanly a number of changes were
>> applied to support those changes. If you deem the patch series too big
>> please let me know.
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> Mauro, can you review this? I would prefer not to maintain those patches
> in our downstream 4.9 kernel as there are quite a few of them, and this
> is likely beneficial to other people.

Hello? Anybody here?
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Florian