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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com, jens.axboe@oracle.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: ioctl32: Unknown cmd
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:24:04 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071016.152404.35664335.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710162150.37636.arnd@arndb.de>

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:50:35 +0200

> The one point where it is expected to have changed now is when you
> try to do these ioctls on something that is not a block device. Are
> you sure that the files you tried them on were created correctly?

Many many many programs do this exact sort of thing.

It is one of the bad aspects of moving the compat handling
down into the file ops for a specific device.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-16 22:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-16 14:45 ioctl32: Unknown cmd Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-10-16 16:58 ` Jens Axboe
2007-10-16 19:50 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-10-16 22:24   ` David Miller [this message]
2007-10-17  0:25     ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-17  6:38   ` Geert Uytterhoeven

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