Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 04:11:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 04:10:23 -0500 Received: from hirsch.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.6]:7437 "EHLO hirsch.in-berlin.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 10 Feb 2002 04:10:05 -0500 X-Envelope-From: news@bytesex.org To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Gerd Knorr Newsgroups: lists.linux.kernel Subject: Re: [V4L] [PATCH/RFC] videodev.[ch] redesign Date: 10 Feb 2002 08:59:45 GMT Organization: SuSE Labs, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Au=DFenstelle?= Berlin Lines: 22 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20020209194602.A23061@bytesex.org> <200202100203.g1A23To32387@devserv.devel.redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost X-Trace: bytesex.org 1013331585 28164 127.0.0.1 (10 Feb 2002 08:59:45 GMT) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Linux) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote: > > It also provides a ioctl wrapper function which handles copying the > > ioctl args from/to userspace, so we have this at one place can drop all > > the copy_from/to_user calls within the v4l device driver ioctl handlers. > > > > Comments? > > I'm not sure 2.4 should change but for 2.5 this is absolutely bang on > perfect For 2.5 I want switch over to using file_operations completely and drop the old stuff. Thus 2.4 should provide both old+new way to handle stuff: The old one for backward compatibility and the new one to allow backporting 2.5.x drivers to 2.4 ... Yesterday I've booted a 2.5.x kernel the first time and managed to make bttv work there. 2.5.x version of the will follow ... Gerd -- #define ENOCLUE 125 /* userland programmer induced race condition */ - 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/