Re: [PATCH 01/25] compat: Remove leftovers from register_ioctl32_conversion

Al Viro
2005-11-05T16:44:43Z

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.