From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/compat_ioctl.c: add missing FS_IOC_FIEMAP support Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:07:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4A775FB9.80600@rtr.ca> References: <4A74584D.2010300@rtr.ca> <4A7722DF.80704@rtr.ca> <4A7725AF.6090106@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linux Kernel , linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Eric Sandeen , Andrew Morton To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Received: from rtr.ca ([76.10.145.34]:44833 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754804AbZHCWHz (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Aug 2009 18:07:55 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A7725AF.6090106@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Eric Sandeen wrote: > Mark Lord wrote: >> (resending, no ack from anyone first time around). > > I had previously sent a fix for this to the ext4 list as well, although > w/o the added case for compat_ioctl or the extra #include. > > Because this ioctl should be 100% compat everywhere, I don't -think- > it's needed, and > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-ext4&m=124872536713005&w=2 > > suffices.... .. Well, whichever of the two works best for the maintainers. We need *something* for it upstream, and probably back in -stable too. Otherwise this prevents using 64-bit kernels on 32-bit userland, as Linus likes to recommend so often. ;) Cheers