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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Lse-tech] [RFC] fork historic module
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:59:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041217165909.GF14229@wotan.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41C30ED6.5010201@colorfullife.com>

On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 05:52:38PM +0100, Manfred Spraul wrote:
> Andi wrote:
> 
> >>+/* IOCTL numbers */
> >>+/* If you add a new IOCTL number don't forget to update FH_MAXNR */
> >>+#define FH_MAGIC	0x35
> >>+#define FH_REGISTER	_IO(FH_MAGIC,0)
> >>+#define FH_UNREGISTER	_IO(FH_MAGIC,1)
> >
> >Is this really unique? 32bit emulation currently needs unique ioctl 
> >numbers.
> > 
> >
> Are there plans to fix that? Perhaps move the emulation callback into 
> struct file?

Yes. See the thread on l-k i started two days ago.

Actually the main reason is that the current conversion setup has a 
unfixable module unload race.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-17 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-17 16:52 [Lse-tech] [RFC] fork historic module Manfred Spraul
2004-12-17 16:59 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-12-17 14:58 Guillaume Thouvenin
2004-12-17 15:11 ` [Lse-tech] " Andi Kleen
2004-12-20  7:28   ` Guillaume Thouvenin
2004-12-17 17:39 ` Erich Focht

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