Re: [PATCH 3/3] sanitize building of fs/compat_ioctl.c

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 02:51:09PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@xxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:34:34 -0700
> 
> > The 64-bit code doesn't compile because Andi keeps blocking the
> > is_compat_task() stuff.
> 
> The one place where I ever thought that was necessary, the
> USB async userspace I/O operation stuff, was solved much more
> cleanly with ->compat_ioctl() file_operations handlers.
> 
> What do you really still need it for at this point?

PPP.
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