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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 19:20:33 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030220.192033.94852330.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030220172624.0d4c5070@mail1.qualcomm.com>

   From: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
   Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:31:43 -0800

   Am I missing something here ?

The data type for things passed into SIOCDEVPRIVATE is
totally opaque.

Multiple drivers, passing in different kinds of data,
use SIOCDEVPRIVATE.  It is inherenly untranslatable
at the point where we are at sys_ioctl32().

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-02-21  3:26 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
2003-02-21  1:31     ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-02-21  1:40       ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-21  3:20       ` David S. Miller [this message]
     [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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