Re: PROBLEM: kbd busted in linux 6.10-rc1 (regression)

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 06:25:43AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, May 29, 2024 at 12:45:56AM -0400, Nick Bowler quoted:
> 
> >        All other headers use _IOC() macros to describe ioctls for a long time
> >        now. This header is stuck in the last century.
> >    
> >        Simply use the _IO() macro. No other changes.
> 
> ... are needed, since _IO() is arch-dependent; this is quite enough to fuck
> alpha and sparc over.  _IO(x,y) is (1<<29) + 256*x + y there; both ports
> got started with compat userland support, so _IO...() family there is
> modelled after OSF/1 and Solaris resp.
> 
> kbd ioctls predate all of that.
> 
> Please, revert 8c467f330059 - commit in question breaks userland on alpha
> and on sparc for no reason whatsoever.  Might be worth adding a comment
> to those definitions at some point, but that can go on top of revert.
> 
> Folks, 0xXYZW is *not* an uncool way to spell _IO(0xXY,0xZW) - if there's
> any chance that those definitions are seen on all architectures, they
> should be left alone.
> 

Ick, I missed that and to be fair, I should have remembered that and not
taken this commit.  I'll get this reverted later tonight when I get back
to my development systems.

thanks,

greg k-h