Re: [PATCH] macros to detect existance of unlocked_ioctl and ioctl_compat

[Andi Kleen]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:59:59AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 20:51:44 +0100
> Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > DaveM can probably give you more details since he tried unsucessfully
> > to make it work. I think the problem is that there is no enough
> > information for the compat layer to convert everything.
> 
> When the usbfs async stuff writes back the status, we are no
> longer within the original syscall/ioctl execution any more,
> therefore we don't know if we're doing this for a compat task
> or not.

[...]

Thanks Dave for the update. I misremembered and I don't think
I can fix this up for x86-64.  We'll need a new interface of some sort.

-Andi
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