From: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
To: "Moore, Eric Dean" <Emoore@lsil.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: 2.4.25-rc1: Inconsistent ioctl symbol usage in drivers/messag e/fusion/mptctl.c
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 17:24:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16425.1494.747797.896644@alkaid.it.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E5703D1A8BE@exa-atlanta.se.lsil.com>
Moore, Eric Dean writes:
> If we pass NULL as the 2nd parameter for register_ioctl32_conversion(),
> the mpt_ioctl() entry point is *not* called when running a 32 bit
> application in x86_64 mode.
Ok, but you still don't need sys_ioctl() since the one-liner
> > filp->f_op->ioctl(filp->f_dentry->d_inode, filp, cmd, arg)
(or a hardcoded call to your ioctl() method) suffices.
sys_ioctl() mostly just checks for special case ioctls before
doing the line above, but those special cases can't occur
since the kernel has already matched your particular ioctl.
/Mikael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-10 16:25 UTC|newest]
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2004-02-10 16:10 Moore, Eric Dean
2004-02-10 16:24 ` Mikael Pettersson [this message]
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2004-02-10 23:53 Moore, Eric Dean
2004-02-11 11:14 ` Mikael Pettersson
2004-02-09 19:43 Moore, Eric Dean
2004-02-10 9:47 ` Mikael Pettersson
2004-02-09 15:58 Moore, Eric Dean
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