[PATCH 1/2] [MTD] CORE: New ioctl calls for >4GiB device support (take 2)

[Adrian Hunter]

Kevin Cernekee wrote:
> Extend the MTD user ABI to access >4GiB devices using 64-bit offsets.
> Add compat_ioctl support to the MTD ABI.
> 
> New ioctls: MEMABIINFO MEMGETINFO64 MEMERASE64 MEMWRITEOOB64 MEMREADOOB64
>             MEMLOCK64 MEMUNLOCK64 MEMGETREGIONINFO64
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <kpc.mtd at gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/mtd/compat_ioctl.c |  233 +++++++++++++
>  drivers/mtd/compat_ioctl.h |   89 +++++
>  drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c      |  817 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  include/mtd/mtd-abi.h      |   69 ++++-
>  include/mtd/mtd-user.h     |    4 +
>  5 files changed, 921 insertions(+), 291 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/mtd/compat_ioctl.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/mtd/compat_ioctl.h
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/compat_ioctl.c b/drivers/mtd/compat_ioctl.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..ee98f71
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/compat_ioctl.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,233 @@
> +/*
> + * MTD compat_ioctl implementation

That is not how it is done.  See fs/compat_ioctl.c

<snip>

> 
> +struct mtd_abi_info {
> +       uint32_t major;
> +       uint32_t minor;
> +       uint32_t patchlevel;
> +       uint32_t res0[8];
> +};
> +

ioctl versioning is unlikely to be accepted by the wider community.
Try posting to LKML for more feedback on that.