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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: maxk@qualcomm.com
Cc: pavel@ucw.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	torvalds@transmeta.com, ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: ioctl32 consolidation
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:36:19 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030220.163619.133744671.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030220145240.0d449118@mail1.qualcomm.com>

   From: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
   Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:56:22 -0800
   
   Eventually we'll be able to kill ugly mess like arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c.
   That stuff really belongs to the actual subsystems that implement those ioctls.

Not really possible with things like SIOCDEVPRIVATE...
Those need special processing and even that is insufficient.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-21  0:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-20 22:31 ioctl32 consolidation Pavel Machek
2003-02-20 22:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-21 11:34   ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-21 11:58     ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-21 23:21     ` David S. Miller
2003-03-01 19:49     ` Anton Blanchard
2003-02-20 22:56 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-02-20 23:10   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-21  0:36   ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-02-21  1:31     ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-02-21  1:40       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-21  3:20       ` David S. Miller
     [not found] <20030221114011$5b98@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <20030221114011$7728@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <20030221114011$25df@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-02-21 22:27     ` Arnd Bergmann
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-24 10:05 Martin Schwidefsky

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