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* RE: mips kernel 2.6.16rc1 + IET 0.4.13 -  /dev/ietctl - ioctl unknown command
@ 2006-03-08 18:18 Shanthi Kiran Pendyala (skiranp)
  2006-03-09 14:19 ` [Iscsitarget-devel] " Ming Zhang
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Shanthi Kiran Pendyala (skiranp) @ 2006-03-08 18:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Frederic Temporelli, iet-dev, linux-mips

I have seen such error messages when userspace app is built in 32bit
mode
And kernel is built in 64 bit mode. Does this apply to your setup ?

The way to fix this is to register a ioctl32 conversion routine in
The driver. Google is your friend..

Thx
Kiran  

>-----Original Message-----
>From: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org 
>[mailto:linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org] On Behalf Of 
>Frederic Temporelli
>Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 10:13 AM
>To: iet-dev; linux-mips
>Subject: mips kernel 2.6.16rc1 + IET 0.4.13 - /dev/ietctl - 
>ioctl unknown command
>
>Hello,
>
>I would like to report an ioctl issue using IET 0.4.13 (iSCSI 
>target) and kernel 2.6.16-rc1, running on mips / SGI O2
>
>The driver seems to load nicely, but there was no way to do 
>ioctl on the userspace device /dev/ietctl.
>I got such messages in syslog:
>Mar  4 16:47:16 o2 kernel: [4303606.514000] 
>ioctl32(ietd:3448): Unknown cmd fd(4) cmd(81046900){01} 
>arg(7f942ab0) on /dev/ietctl
>
>=> I've been able to resolve the issue by adding a by-pass (goto
>do_ioctl) in kernel compat_sys_ioctl function (fs/compat.c)  
>and all is working fine now.
>
>I don't know if such issue is related to mips only or is due to changes
>2.6.16 kernel
>I've also did some tries on x86 with linux 2.6.15.5, all was 
>working fine without needing to change anything in the kernel.
>
>Did somebody report such issue with IET and recent kernel ?
>May some people from linux-mips tell if such issue is mips specific ?
>
>Best regards.
>--
>Fred
>
>
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