RE: [PATCH]: megaraid 2.20.4: Fixes a data corruption bug

From: James Bottomley
Date: Fri Oct 01 2004 - 15:36:23 EST


On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 16:08, Bagalkote, Sreenivas wrote:
> The submitted previous version of megaraid (2.20.3.1) had
> register_ioctl32_conversion & unregister_ioctl32_conversion
> defined to empty statements if CONFIG_COMPAT was _not_
> defined.


> But I think the preferred way was to have the occurances of
> (un)register_ioctl32_conversion in the code surrounded by
> #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT ... #endif directly. In the kernel source
> only register_ioctl32_conversion has these #ifdef .. #endif. The
> unregister_ioctl32_conversion doesn't.

Actually, because of the way linux/ioctl32 defines these, the #ifdef
CONFIG_COMPAT is unnecessary even around register_ioctl32_...

James


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