Re: [PATCH] Start of cleaning up socket ioctls

[Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>]

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 04:23:19PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Nice but one request - can you call the protocol handlers first and if
> they return -ENOTTY then call the default ones provided by the upper
> layer. That will let you remove even more common code to most versions,
> make it work like the serial and other layers do, and still let people
> override defaults

I'm trying to tread as lightly as possible at first.  I wasn't sure
how well this kind of cleanup would be received ;-)  The trouble with
doing what you've asked immediately is that not all ->ioctl methods
return -ENOTTY.  Some return -EINVAL, some return -EOPNOTSUPP and some
return -ENOPKG.  Yeah, this should probably get cleaned up, but baby
steps first.  I have no Grand Plan here, but I do want to make things
a little more understandable before I embark on anything bigger.

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