Re: is avoiding compat ioctls possible?

[Dave Airlie]

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 12:25 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:22:18 +1000
>
>> Is there really no way to avoid compat ioctls? was I delusional in
>> thinking there was?
>
> If you use pointers in your interfaces in any way, no.
>
> And for this drm_radeon_info thing the pointer is "pointless",
> you're just returning 32-bit values to the user, just use
> a u32 inside of the drm_radeon_info structure for the kernel
> to place the result in.

The plan for that was to expand it later, for now 32-bit was all we used.

Dave.
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