Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:43:25 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v1 9/9] staging: android: binder: Add binder compat layer |
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 12:46:42PM -0800, Colin Cross wrote: > 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?
Yes, that's the best way to solve the issue, right?
thanks,
greg k-h
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