From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>,
Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Hiroaki Fuse <Hiroaki_Fuse@hq.scei.sony.co.jp>
Subject: Re: Too verbose compat_ioctl messages?
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:36:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <468E8BBF.9020907@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <468E8B07.2030404@goop.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>
>> ENOTTY is so excessively misnamed that it is actually surprising
>> anybody ever got that "right" (for very small values of right i guess)
>
> But it *isn't* a typewriter. Of course, it's not a giraffe either.
>
The union of things that are not typewriters and not giraffes are rather
large, indeed.
This is getting philosophical.
-hpa
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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>,
Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux/PPC Development <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>,
Hiroaki Fuse <Hiroaki_Fuse@hq.scei.sony.co.jp>
Subject: Re: Too verbose compat_ioctl messages?
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:36:47 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <468E8BBF.9020907@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <468E8B07.2030404@goop.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>
>> ENOTTY is so excessively misnamed that it is actually surprising
>> anybody ever got that "right" (for very small values of right i guess)
>
> But it *isn't* a typewriter. Of course, it's not a giraffe either.
>
The union of things that are not typewriters and not giraffes are rather
large, indeed.
This is getting philosophical.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-06 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-06 12:47 Too verbose compat_ioctl messages? Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-06 12:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-07-06 12:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-07-06 15:49 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-06 15:49 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-06 15:52 ` [PATCH] compat32: ignore the LOOP_CLR_FD ioctl Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-06 15:52 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-07-06 16:30 ` Too verbose compat_ioctl messages? H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-06 16:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-06 18:14 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-06 18:14 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-06 17:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-06 17:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-06 18:33 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-06 18:33 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-06 18:36 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-07-06 18:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-06 18:40 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-06 18:40 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-07-06 19:04 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-06 19:04 ` Andi Kleen
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