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From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] add ->compat_ioctl to dasd
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:07:14 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1134562034.5496.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051213172320.GB16392@lst.de>

On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 18:23 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Add a compat_ioctl method to the dasd driver so the last entries in
> arch/s390/kernel/compat_ioctl.c can go away.  Unlike the previous
> attempt this one does not replace the ioctl method with an
> unlocked_ioctl method so that the ioctl_by_bdev calls in s390 partition
> code continue to work.

Looks better but still doesn't work. The dasd driver specific ioctls do
work but there are some generic ones that are only available on the
normal ioctl path, including BLKFLSBUF, BLKROSET and HDIO_GETGEO. That
makes e.g. the 32 bit version of fdasd fail with "IOCTL error".

-- 
blue skies,
   Martin

Martin Schwidefsky
Linux for zSeries Development & Services
IBM Deutschland Entwicklung GmbH

  reply	other threads:[~2005-12-14 12:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-12-13 17:23 [PATCH 2/3] add ->compat_ioctl to dasd Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-14 12:07 ` Martin Schwidefsky [this message]
2005-12-14 12:24   ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-14 12:38     ` Martin Schwidefsky

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