On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 7:57 PM Alessio Balsini <balsini@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Joel, > > I was considering the rationale for this patch totally straightforward: > it enables Direct I/O ioctl to 32 bit processes running on 64 bit > systems for compatibility reasons, as for all the other lo_compat_ioctl > commands. > Also the reason why someone would decide to use Direct I/O with loop > devices is well known, that is why the feature exists :) So I thought > this was another redundant information to put in the commit message and > decided to omit it. No objections from me if maintainers are Ok with it. > If you still think that I should update the commit message with this > information, I will do so. I think you should. thanks, - Joel
