Re: [PATCH] fs/compat_ioctl.c: add missing FS_IOC_FIEMAP support

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 04 August 2009, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 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.  ;)
> 
> OK, here's what I have, with a somewhat reworked changelog.
> 
> I assumed that "Josef" == josef@xxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Arnd, could you please check that it still looks OK?

Yes, it looks ok as well. The #include is not needed here,
and the difference in compat_sys_ioctl() is that with Eric's
patch, a file system or device driver could in theory implement
its own compat handler for FS_IOC_FIEMAP while it cannot do
that for the native ioctl.

I would like to keep the logic in compat_sys_ioctl in sync with
do_vfs_ioctl, but they have diverged already. I have an experimental
patch set to rework compat_ioctl handling that will also take care
of this.

	Arnd <><
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