Re: [discuss] f_ops flag to speed up compatible ioctls in linux kernel

[Andi Kleen]

> Wait, I think that a properly coded ioctl can always
> figure out this is a compat call by looking at the command
> (see example below).
> So maybe we can live with just one new entry point with these
> semantics?

I think two is cleaner. And needing 8 bytes more for a file_operations
structure is not exactly a catastrophe.

-Andi
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