Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268168AbUIGPV5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:21:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268224AbUIGPTI (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:19:08 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:41905 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268339AbUIGPOc (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:14:32 -0400 Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 17:10:22 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Andi Kleen , discuss@x86-64.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [discuss] f_ops flag to speed up compatible ioctls in linux kernel Message-ID: <20040907151022.GA32287@wotan.suse.de> References: <20040903080058.GB2402@wotan.suse.de> <20040907104017.GB10096@mellanox.co.il> <20040907121418.GC25051@wotan.suse.de> <20040907134517.GA1016@mellanox.co.il> <20040907141524.GA13862@wotan.suse.de> <20040907142530.GB1016@mellanox.co.il> <20040907142945.GB20981@wotan.suse.de> <20040907143702.GC1016@mellanox.co.il> <20040907144452.GC20981@wotan.suse.de> <20040907144543.GA1340@mellanox.co.il> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040907144543.GA1340@mellanox.co.il> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 599 Lines: 21 On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 05:45:43PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > > > but I cannot think of a good alternative. > > > > > > > > > > Maybe one entry point with a flag? > > > > That would be IMHO far uglier than two. > > > > -Andi > > > > What would be a good name? ioctl32/ioctl64? ioctl_compat/ioctl_native? Later two sound ok to me. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/