On Saturday 17 March 2007 22:35:08 Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Also, what's the reasoning behind defining a new structure
> instead of just returning siginfo_t? Sure siginfo_t is ugly
> but it is a well-defined structure and users already deal
> with the problems it causes.

Ok, found the answer myself, fops->read() must not do the
conversion to compat_siginfo_t on a 64 bit kernel, that would
just be too ugly for words.

        Arnd <><
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