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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IO{R,W,RW}_BAD
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 08:36:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-106577527920616@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-106572723213144@msgid-missing>

Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> writes:

> We need this patch to compile some drivers.  It's a mirror of the patch
> applied to i386 and other architectures.
>
> Index: include/asm-ia64/ioctl.h
> =================================> RCS file: /var/cvs/linux-2.6/include/asm-ia64/ioctl.h,v
> retrieving revision 1.1
> diff -u -p -r1.1 ioctl.h
> --- include/asm-ia64/ioctl.h	29 Jul 2003 17:01:57 -0000	1.1
> +++ include/asm-ia64/ioctl.h	30 Sep 2003 22:23:28 -0000
> @@ -54,11 +54,21 @@
>  	 ((nr)   << _IOC_NRSHIFT) | \
>  	 ((size) << _IOC_SIZESHIFT))
>  
> +/* provoke compile error for invalid uses of size argument */
> +extern int __invalid_size_argument_for_IOC;
> +#define _IOC_TYPECHECK(t) \
> +	((sizeof(t) = sizeof(t[1]) && \
> +	  sizeof(t) < (1 << _IOC_SIZEBITS)) ? \
> +	  sizeof(t) : __invalid_size_argument_for_IOC)

This needs to be implemented differently.  Glibc needs to include this
file for <sys/ioctl.h>, but the use of the undefined symbol will make it
impossible to compile without optimisation.

Andreas.

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-10-10  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-09 19:15 [PATCH] IO{R,W,RW}_BAD Matthew Wilcox
2003-10-10  8:36 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]

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