From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sys32_ioctl -> compat_ioctl -- generic
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 10:36:19 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030305103619.52ccdfe2.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030303232122.GA24018@elf.ucw.cz>
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 00:21:22 +0100 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>
> +asmlinkage long compat_ioctl(unsigned int fd, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
For consistancy, this should be called compat_sys_ioctl.
> +{
> + struct file * filp;
> + filp = fget(fd);
> + /* find the name of the device. */
> + if (path) {
> + struct file *f = fget(fd);
Is it really necessary to do another fget(fd) ?
Also, if you are adding this much code, you should add a copyright notice
to the top of the file ...
--
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-04 23:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-03 23:21 Pavel Machek
2003-03-04 23:28 ` Stephen Rothwell
2003-03-05 21:43 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-04 23:36 ` Stephen Rothwell [this message]
2003-03-06 23:37 ` Pavel Machek
2003-03-09 22:44 ` Stephen Rothwell
2003-03-10 11:28 ` Andi Kleen
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