On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 April 2011, John Calixto wrote:
> > Gah!  OK, so much for the v5 I just sent then.  What do you think about
> > the compat_ioctl that I sent in v2?  It means having the extra 32-bit
> > compat structure, but at least all the compat overhead is conditional
> > upon CONFIG_COMPAT.  If you're not using CONFIG_COMPAT, you don't get
> > any compat cruft.
> > 
> 
> A single __u64 is sufficient, because the user space will do the correct
> conversion from pointer to 64-bit integer then. The only conversion
> you need to worry about is the actual pointer to the main structure,
> which needs the compat_ptr() magic.
> 

Yep.  Please see the v6 patch for my latest implementation.

John
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