From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Joe Thornber <joe@fib011235813.fsnet.co.uk>,
Linux Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Device-mapper submission 6/7
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:38:22 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021016143822.GA4320@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DAD75AE.7010405@pobox.com>
> AFAIK Linus and Al Viro (and myself <g>) have always considered ioctls
> an ugly -ism that should have never made it into Unix. Over and above
> the Unix/VFS design problems with ioctl(2), ioctl(2) is a pain for
> people like David Miller who must maintain 32<->64 bit ioctl translation
> layers for their architecture. ia64 and x64-64 must do this too. Each
> ioctl you add is an additional headache for them.
And ppc64 :) Lately Dave, Andi and I seem to be spending too much time
bouncing fixes around for 32/64 bit ioctl and syscall translation code.
Anton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-16 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-15 17:58 [PATCH] Device-mapper submission 6/7 Joe Thornber
2002-10-15 18:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-15 18:59 ` Greg KH
2002-10-15 21:44 ` Joe Thornber
2002-10-16 14:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-16 14:38 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2002-10-16 15:20 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-16 15:20 ` Joe Thornber
2002-10-16 15:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-17 8:05 ` Joe Thornber
2002-10-17 8:26 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-17 8:50 ` Joe Thornber
2002-10-17 16:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-18 11:38 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2002-10-17 15:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-18 0:48 ` Andi Kleen
2002-10-17 0:46 ` Greg KH
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