Re: [PATCH] Joystick on amd64 for 32bit programs

[Brian Gerst]

Bernhard Ager wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the patch below makes the joystick on amd64 work for 32bit
> applications. It was successfully tested by myself with X-Plane [1],
> SilentWings [2], Quake 3 [3] and quite some other applications. 
>
> How it works: as the parameters in 32bit userspace ioctl are
> compatible with the 64bit kernel, it is sufficient to declare them
> compatible in ia32_ioctl.c. The JSIOCGNAME ioctl causes a problem as
> it encodes the length of the return buffer into the ioctl number. This
> is solved by mapping all of the JSIOCGNAME ioctls to JSIOCGNAME(0).
>
> Patch is below and works for vanilla kernels at least up to
> 2.6.13.

This patch uses the obsolete method of defining compat ioctls.  The 
joydev ioctls are already fixed (using ->compat_ioctl) in more recent 
kernels.

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				Brian Gerst
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