From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2004@gmx.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix tiocgdev 32/64bit emul
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:55:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040321185538.A10504@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <405DE3EF.8090508@gmx.net>; from c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2004@gmx.net on Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 07:50:23PM +0100
On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 07:50:23PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > Isn't that SuSE's strange ioctl hack that has been rejected for mainline
> > multiple times? why does x86_64 have an emulation for it if the ioctl
> > isn't implemented anyway?
>
> Since this pops up from time to time, please let me explain what TIOCGDEV
> does (if you know already, feel free to scoll to the end) and ask for
> alternative solutions.
Oh, I know what it does. Have you ever looked at Al's rawconsole patch
that he coded up exactly in response to that hack?
ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/people/viro/ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/people/viro/X0-rawconsole-B5
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-21 18:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-21 6:24 linguist
2004-03-21 16:45 ` [PATCH] fix tiocgdev 32/64bit emul Jeff Garzik
2004-03-21 16:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-21 18:50 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-03-21 18:55 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-03-21 19:57 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-03-21 20:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-03-21 20:17 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2004-03-21 20:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
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