Re: [PATCH] block: move ioctl conversion to compat_blkdev_ioctl

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To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...>

Cc: <linux-kernel@...>, <davem@...>, <hch@...>, Al Viro <viro@...>

Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: move ioctl conversion to compat_blkdev_ioctl

Date: Friday, October 5, 2007 - 8:41 am

On Fri, Oct 05 2007, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
quoted text> 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, Jens Axboe, (Tue Oct 2, 3:39 am)

Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels, Arnd Bergmann, (Tue Oct 2, 4:15 am)

Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels, Jens Axboe, (Tue Oct 2, 4:37 am)

Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels, Jens Axboe, (Tue Oct 2, 5:28 am)

Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels, Arnd Bergmann, (Wed Oct 3, 11:55 am)

Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels, Arnd Bergmann, (Wed Oct 3, 6:48 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels, Jens Axboe, (Thu Oct 4, 2:16 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels, Arnd Bergmann, (Thu Oct 4, 2:44 pm)

Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels, Jens Axboe, (Fri Oct 5, 6:41 am)

[PATCH] block: move ioctl conversion to compat_blkdev_ioctl, Arnd Bergmann, (Fri Oct 5, 8:30 am)

Re: [PATCH] block: move ioctl conversion to compat_blkdev_io..., Jens Axboe, (Fri Oct 5, 8:41 am)

Re: [PATCH] block: move ioctl conversion to compat_blkdev_io..., Arnd Bergmann, (Fri Oct 5, 8:41 am)

Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels, Arnd Bergmann, (Wed Oct 3, 5:34 am)

Re: [PATCH] Fix blktrace setup 32-bit ioctl on 64-bit kernels, David Miller, (Tue Oct 2, 3:52 am)


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