Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754777AbZGLPH3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:07:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753912AbZGLPHU (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:07:20 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.177]:62373 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753804AbZGLPHT (ORCPT ); Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:07:19 -0400 From: Arnd Bergmann To: Michael Tokarev Subject: Re: compat ioctl32 for /dev/snapshot? Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:07:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.0 (Linux/2.6.31-2-generic; KDE/4.2.95; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Pavel Machek , "Linux-kernel" References: <49FEB572.4010909@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <20090710162105.GA1469@ucw.cz> <4A592C09.8060104@msgid.tls.msk.ru> In-Reply-To: <4A592C09.8060104@msgid.tls.msk.ru> X-Face: I@=L^?./?$U,EK.)V[4*>`zSqm0>65YtkOe>TFD'!aw?7OVv#~5xd\s,[~w]-J!)|%=]> =?utf-8?q?+=0A=09=7EohchhkRGW=3F=7C6=5FqTmkd=5Ft=3FLZC=23Q-=60=2E=60Y=2Ea=5E?= =?utf-8?q?3zb?=) =?utf-8?q?+U-JVN=5DWT=25cw=23=5BYo0=267C=26bL12wWGlZi=0A=09=7EJ=3B=5Cwg?= =?utf-8?q?=3B3zRnz?=,J"CT_)=\H'1/{?SR7GDu?WIopm.HaBG=QYj"NZD_[zrM\Gip^U MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200907121707.11152.arnd@arndb.de> X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/rREjVwJ8JNMBPKdc5GHajRuupHi4WlVH1hDn RC+hZmqO/HuoUi8Isdnz657N0efOYUZkhmU40sUOpDvq9E2z5i 3HfTTIbab6RYpw3KylSuw== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 930 Lines: 20 On Sunday 12 July 2009, Michael Tokarev wrote: > As I mentioned in my first email, I'm not the right person to > do the patch. But regardless, I spent about a day understanding > this stuff (or trying to, anyway) - 100% useless day - and when > I thought I have a patch someone else spoken up and said this > way (compat_ioctl) is the wrong approach now. And sent another, > also trivial patch, adding compat calls right to the proper > place in kernel/power.c. Which (the patch) has been ignored > too. I never got a reply from you saying whether or not the patch I sent actually worked. If you or someone else can confirm it, I'll resend with the fixes you mentioned. Arnd <>< -- 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/