Re: [Y2038] [PATCH v6 31/43] compat_ioctl: move WDIOC handling into wdt drivers

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Fri Oct 18 2019 - 08:49:18 EST


On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 21:10 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> All watchdog drivers implement the same set of ioctl commands, and
> fortunately all of them are compatible between 32-bit and 64-bit
> architectures.
>
> Modern drivers always go through drivers/watchdog/wdt.c as an abstraction
> layer, but older ones implement their own file_operations on a character
> device for this.
>
> Move the handling from fs/compat_ioctl.c into the individual drivers.
>
> Note that most of the legacy drivers will never be used on 64-bit
> hardware, because they are for an old 32-bit SoC implementation, but
> doing them all at once is safer than trying to guess which ones do
> or do not need the compat_ioctl handling.
>
> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/platforms/52xx/mpc52xx_gpt.c | 1 +
> arch/um/drivers/harddog_kern.c | 1 +
> drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c | 1 +
> drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c | 1 +
> drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1374.c | 1 +
[...]

It Looks like you missed a couple:

drivers/rtc/rtc-m41t80.c
drivers/watchdog/kempld_wdt.c

Ben.

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