Re: [RFC] pps: fixing CONFIG_COMPAT issues

[Matt Ranostay]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 12/22/16 21:39, Matt Ranostay wrote:
>>
>>
>> What would be the best way to fix the padding issue without breaking
>> userspace applications? Just fixing the alignment with explicit
>> padding is of course the clean easy way, but bashing the data in
>> compat_ioctl would avoid breakage.
>
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> I've no experience in this topic... I'm sorry! :(
>
> Maybe is better waiting for David's advices? In the meantime I'm going to
> study the problem a bit better.

Just poking to see if anyone has a better solution. Since the long
holidays are over :)

Thanks,

Matt

>
> Ciao,
>
> Rodolfo
>
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