| Date | Wed, 4 Dec 2013 12:46:42 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 9/9] staging: android: binder: Add binder compat layer | From | Colin Cross <> |
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On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: <snip>
> And finally, is this all really needed? Why not just fix the structures > to be "correct", and then fix userspace to use the correct structures as > well, thereby not needing a compat layer at all?
Some of the binder ioctls take userspace pointers. Are you suggesting storing those pointers in a __u64 to avoid having to have a compat_ioctl?
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