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Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2005 16:44:40 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/25] compat: Remove leftovers from register_ioctl32_conversion
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On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 05:26:51PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> We don't need the semaphore any more since we no longer
> write to the ioctl32 hash table while the kernel is running.

Could we *please* get rid of this ridiculous return type of compat_ioctl?

->ioctl() returns 32bit value.  Everywhere.  On 32 and 64 bit platforms.
Having ->compat_ioctl() return value twice wider than not just emulated
->ioctl(), but native one as well...

Let's kill that stupidity before adding fsckloads of new instances.