Re: [PATCH] cosa.h ioctl numbers

[Jan Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
: On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Andreas Schwab wrote:
: > This has nothing to do with this, but everything to do with
: > sizeof(sizeof(foo)) == sizeof(size_t).  And COSAIODOWNLD does not expect a
: > pointer to a pointer but a pointer to struct cosa_download, which means
: > that _IOW('C',0xf2,struct cosa_download *) would be completely wrong
: > anyway.
: 
: We have similar "broken due to historical reasons" in other places. 
: There's no good way to fix them up, and it doesn't really matter _what_ 
: fake type you use, as long as it happens to be the same size as the 
: original broken type on all architectures where it matters.
[...]
: Sounds like it doesn't much matter in this case, any of the above would 
: work.
[...]
	OK, then please apply the attached patch:

Description: Make COSA ioctl numbers compatible with previous kernels.

Signed-off-by: Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz>

--- linux-2.6.10-rc2/drivers/net/wan/cosa.h.orig	2004-12-02 13:34:24.142501564 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.10-rc2/drivers/net/wan/cosa.h	2004-12-02 14:09:23.000860524 +0100
@@ -76,10 +76,16 @@
 #define COSAIOSTRT	_IOW('C',0xf1, int)
 
 /* Read the block from the device memory */
-#define COSAIORMEM	_IOWR('C',0xf2, struct cosa_download)
+#define COSAIORMEM	_IOWR('C',0xf2, struct cosa_download *)
+	/* actually the struct cosa_download itself; this is to keep
+	 * the ioctl number same as in 2.4 in order to keep the user-space
+	 * utils compatible. */
 
 /* Write the block to the device memory (i.e. download the microcode) */
-#define COSAIODOWNLD	_IOW('C',0xf2, struct cosa_download)
+#define COSAIODOWNLD	_IOW('C',0xf2, struct cosa_download *)
+	/* actually the struct cosa_download itself; this is to keep
+	 * the ioctl number same as in 2.4 in order to keep the user-space
+	 * utils compatible. */
 
 /* Read the device type (one of "srp", "cosa", and "cosa8" for now) */
 #define COSAIORTYPE	_IOR('C',0xf3, char *)

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