On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
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> 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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