Re: [Y2038] [PATCH v6 10/43] compat_ioctl: move rtc handling into rtc-dev.c

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On Wed, 2019-10-09 at 21:10 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> We no longer need the rtc compat handling to be in common code, now that
> all drivers are either moved to the rtc-class framework, or (rarely)
> exist in drivers/char for architectures without compat mode (m68k,
> alpha and ia64, respectively).
> 
> I checked the list of ioctl commands in drivers, and the ones that are
> not already handled are all compatible, again with the one exception of
> m68k driver, which implements RTC_PLL_GET and RTC_PLL_SET, but has no
> compat mode.
>
> Since the ioctl commands are either compatible or differ in both structure
> and command code between 32-bit and 64-bit, we can merge the compat
> handler into the native one and just implement the two common compat
> commands (RTC_IRQP_READ, RTC_IRQP_SET) there.
[...]

I don't think this can work properly on s390, because some of them take
integers and some take pointers.

Ben.

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