Re: 2.6.27-rc4-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.26

David Miller
2008-08-27T22:43:43Z

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:38:16 -0700 (PDT)

> Btw, why is unlocked_ioctl returning "long"? Does anybody depend on that
> too? That's another difference between the "unlocked" and the traditional
> version..

The return values want to be "long" sign extended all the way back
down to syscall dispatch, I think this is just an effort to add
some consistency here so that the int --> long extension eventually
can be eliminated once unlocked_ioctl is the only case left.