Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 26 Mar 2019 10:09:11 +0900 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [BACKPORT 4.4.y 02/25] ALSA: compress: add support for 32bit calls in a 64bit kernel |
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On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 04:43:53PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > From: Ravindra Lokhande <rlokhande@nvidia.com> > > Compress offload does not support ioctl calls from a 32bit userspace > in a 64 bit kernel. This patch adds support for ioctls from a 32bit > userspace in a 64bit kernel > > Signed-off-by: Ravindra Lokhande <rlokhande@nvidia.com> > Acked-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> > Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> > (cherry picked from commit c10368897e104c008c610915a218f0fe5fa4ec96) > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> > --- > sound/core/compress_offload.c | 13 +++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
How is this not a "new feature"? What bug does this fix? Has this ever worked in the past?
thanks,
greg k-h
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