From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Bernhard Walle <walle@corscience.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: spidev: Add 32 bit compat ioctl()
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2011 13:18:15 +0100
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On Wednesday 02 February 2011, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> Add the compat_ioctl for operations on /dev/spi* so that 32 bit
> userspace applications can access SPI. As far as I can see all data
> structure are already prepared for that, so no additional conversion has
> to be done.
> 
> My use case is MIPS with N32 userspace ABI and toolchain, and that was
> also the platform where I tested it successfully (Cavium Octeon).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <walle@corscience.de>

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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