On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 09:57:48PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 01:35:06PM -0700, Darren Hart wrote: > > > Acked-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > As for a longer term solution, would it be possible to init fops in such > > a way that the compat_ioctl call defaults to generic_compat_ioctl_ptrarg > > so we don't have to duplicate this boilerplate for every ioctl fops > > structure? > > Bad idea, that... Because several years down the road somebody will add > an ioctl that takes an unsigned int for argument. Without so much as looking > at your magical mystery macro being used to initialize file_operations. Fair, being explicit in the declaration as it is currently may be preferable then. -- Darren Hart VMware Open Source Technology Center
