On Sat, Jul 09, 2011 at 01:04:53AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 07/08/2011 05:35 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > > > Input only need to do this compat stuff on read/write paths so maybe if > > you add plumbing similar to compat_ioctl we could switch owver to it. > > > > The problem is that read/write ties into a large number of system calls, > and input is the *only* subsystem which needs it. > BTW, while listening to x32 resentation on LPC I realized that the need for compat tests on read/write paths in input subsystem is due to use of timeval in input_event structures. If x32 solved the time_t issue by moving to 64 bit times then input read/write should simply use native 64 bit operations. That still leaves sysfs and proc business of course... Thanks. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
