Re: [PATCH] Declare PIO_CMAP/GIO_CMAP as compatbile ioctls.

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:41:25 +0100 (CET) Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 
> > Otherwise, these don't work when called from 32-bit userspace on 64-bit kernels.

Bill, please remember to add signoffs?  This should all be scripted.

> > ---
> >  fs/compat_ioctl.c |    2 ++
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/compat_ioctl.c b/fs/compat_ioctl.c
> > index 5235c67..9ee71a0 100644
> > --- a/fs/compat_ioctl.c
> > +++ b/fs/compat_ioctl.c
> > @@ -1937,6 +1937,8 @@ ULONG_IOCTL(SET_BITMAP_FILE)
> >  /* Big K */
> >  COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(PIO_FONT)
> >  COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(GIO_FONT)
> > +COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(PIO_CMAP)
> > +COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(GIO_CMAP)
> >  ULONG_IOCTL(KDSIGACCEPT)
> >  COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(KDGETKEYCODE)
> >  COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(KDSETKEYCODE)
> > -- 
> > 1.6.1.2
> 
> Alan, I am hesitant to consider this material implicitly applicable for 
> trivial tree.

No, it isn't appropriate for the trivial tree.

> Could you please give your Acked-by for it so that I can 
> merge, or take it through your tree completely?

afaict this fix is needed all the way back to 2.6.tiny.  I merged it
with 2.6.29 intentions.  Also tagged as needed in 2.6.25.x and later.

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