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

Alan Cox
2008-08-27T22:28:03Z

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

I don't know - a lot of syscall returns got defined as long and I guess
someone thought propogating the right type was a good diea ?
>
> As to the "x86 cases", I think you should try to hit them all. Doing a
> "git grep unlocked_ioctl" gets 185 entries, and it looks like only
> something like 8 of them are non-x86 (3 in the arch/ directory, five in
> s390 drivers).
>
> Of course, some of them may be drivers that aren't available on x86 for
> other reasons (ie the ARM embedded stuff), but regardless..
>
> Anyway, the pure size of that patch makes me suspect that we might as well
> leave it until the next merge window, but if you do it and it's obviously
> totally mechanical, I'd be likely to just let it slip in early.

I'll take a crack at it tomorrow - but if its 185 entries then it
probably wants to go into -next instead.

Alan