On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Philip Brown wrote:
> 
> Does this "thunking" happen at the native OS level, or in the linux drm
> code itself?

Each user has to thunk on its own, since nobody else even knows what the 
ioctl stuctures are.

Moral of the story: avoid ioctl's. _Especially_ avoid ioctl's with 
questionable binary structure formats.

                Linus



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