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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Tom Appermont <tea@sonycom.com>
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Subject: Re: size of ioctl
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On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:16:58PM +0100, Tom Appermont wrote:

> I would like to see this changed because the PCMCIA software 
> (cardmgr <-> driver services) needs to pass ioctl messages 
> around that are a lot bigger than 256 bytes. 

As of today this is only historic garbage, so _IOC_SLMASK can go away.

  Ralf