From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263702AbUCUSzu (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:55:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263701AbUCUSzq (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:55:46 -0500 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:2564 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263700AbUCUSzm (ORCPT ); Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:55:42 -0500 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:55:38 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Carl-Daniel Hailfinger Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix tiocgdev 32/64bit emul Message-ID: <20040321185538.A10504@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , Jeff Garzik , Linux Kernel Mailing List , viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk References: <405DC698.4040802@pobox.com> <20040321165752.A9028@infradead.org> <405DE3EF.8090508@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i 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 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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