From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266466AbUGKBG5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 21:06:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266467AbUGKBG5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 21:06:57 -0400 Received: from av9-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net ([81.228.11.115]:12521 "EHLO av9-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266466AbUGKBGy (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2004 21:06:54 -0400 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jens Axboe , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] CDRW packet writing support for 2.6.7-bk13 References: <200407110120.47256.arnd@arndb.de> <20040710232714.GA21633@infradead.org> From: Peter Osterlund Date: 11 Jul 2004 03:06:43 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20040710232714.GA21633@infradead.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Christoph Hellwig writes: > On Sun, Jul 11, 2004 at 01:20:45AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > These are actually incorrect definitions since the ioctl argument is > > not a pointer to unsigned int but instead just an int. However, that's > > too late to fix without breaking the existing tools. > > The tools need to change anyway to get away from the broken behaviour to > issue in ioctl on the actual block device to bind it.. OK, I'll create a patch that gets rid of the ioctl interface and uses an auxiliary character device instead to control device bindings. -- Peter Osterlund - petero2@telia.com http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340