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From: Jens Axboe
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Re: [PATCH] block: move ioctl conversion to compat_blkdev_ioctl
Date: Friday, October 5, 2007 - 5:41 am
On Fri, Oct 05 2007, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
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> fs/compat_ioctl.c is still a mess and I'd prefer to get rid of it > over time, by moving everything to the respective drivers. > > A significant portion of our ioctl numbers are common to a number > of block drivers, so should not handle them in each driver separately, > but rather in the block layer. > > In the process, we remove a few indirections from the call graph > for compat block ioctls. This patch is still an entirely untested > preview and should be split into smaller chunks.
As before, this looks pretty good. I'll toss it in the tester and see if things still work. -- Jens Axboe -
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[PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels
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Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels
, David Miller
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Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels
, Arnd Bergmann
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Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels
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Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels
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Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels
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Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels
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Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels
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Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels
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Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels
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Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels
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[PATCH] block: move ioctl conversion to compat_blkdev_ioctl
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Re: [PATCH] block: move ioctl conversion to compat_blkdev_ ...
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