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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:14:27 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, akpm@osdl.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] cleanup compat ioctl handling
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On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:10:02PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> writes:
> 
> > Merge all compat ioctl handling into compat_ioctl.c instead of splitting
> > it over compat.c and compat_ioctl.c.  This also allows to get rid of
> > ioctl32.h
> 
> Looks good. 
> 
> If someone feels the need to do more cleanup here -- it would be also
> nice to move more handlers to be in ->compat_ioctl and in their respective
> files than so much compat_ioctl.

Arnd had a huge patch series for that that somehow got lost.  It would
be nice if someone with a little time on his hands could revive parts of
it.