From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Jan Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cosa.h ioctl numbers
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 17:45:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jevfbkabtt.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041202155559.GR11992@fi.muni.cz> (Jan Kasprzak's message of "Thu, 2 Dec 2004 16:56:00 +0100")
Jan Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz> writes:
> I do not understand. The _IOW() macro just uses sizeof(_third_argument)
> both on 2.4 and 2.6.
Yes, and 2.4 uses sizeof in the third argument, thus size_t is the most
natural replacement.
> I would rather have the 2.6 ioctl numbers the same as in 2.1-2.4.
You get that when you use size_t for the type, which also gives some hint
that the old definition was an unfortunate mistake and might prevent other
people from "fixing" it again. Putting a pointer here just adds to the
confusion and should be avoided, IMHO.
Andreas.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-02 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-02 12:44 [PATCH] cosa.h ioctl numbers Jan Kasprzak
2004-12-02 12:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-12-02 13:12 ` Jan Kasprzak
2004-12-02 13:57 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-12-02 14:11 ` Jan Kasprzak
2004-12-02 15:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-12-02 15:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-06 10:02 ` Jan Kasprzak
2004-12-02 15:56 ` Jan Kasprzak
2004-12-02 16:45 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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