On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 6:16 AM, Mikulas Patocka <miku...@twibright.com> wrote:
> This patch adds support for fstrim to the HPFS filesystem.
...
> +#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> + .compat_ioctl = hpfs_compat_ioctl,
> +#endif
...
> +#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> + .compat_ioctl = hpfs_compat_ioctl,
> +#endif
...
> +#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> +long hpfs_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
> +{
> + return hpfs_ioctl(file, cmd, (unsigned long)compat_ptr(arg));
> +}
> +#endif
Hmm. You've clearly copied this pattern from other filesystems, and so
I can't really blame you, but this thing annoys me a lot.
Why isn't FITRIM just marked as a COMPATIBLE_IOCTL(), at which point
the generic ioctl layer will do exactly the above translation for us?
Am I missing something?
Linus
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