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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 03:38:43 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@bergmann-dalldorf.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
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Subject: Re: share COMPATIBLE_IOCTL()s across architectures
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On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 02:35:30AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Why not simply move the common COMPATIBLE_IOCTLs and includes into
> kernel/compat_ioctl.c or similar? That would IMHO be cleaner and
> it does not need more preprocessing hacks.
> There can still be a second init_sys32_ioctl() copy to handle the arch
> specific list with additional translations.

This would work for COMPATIBLE_IOCTLS, but the conversions handlers
would need a new asm/ file for the macros. They're declared with assembler
magic to avoid declaring all the functions. This way you need less files.

-Andi
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