On Friday 01 July 2011, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
>
> On Linux x86_64 host with 32bit userspace, running
> qemu or even just "qemu-img create -f qcow2 some.img 1G"
> causes a kernel warning:
>
> ioctl32(qemu-img:5296): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(00005326){t:'S';sz:0}
> arg(7fffffff) on some.img
> ioctl32(qemu-img:5296): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(801c0204){t:02;sz:28}
> arg(fff77350) on some.img
>
> ioctl 00005326 is CDROM_DRIVE_STATUS,
> ioctl 801c0204 is FDGETPRM.
>
> The warning appears because the Linux compat-ioctl handler for these
> ioctls only applies to block devices, while qemu also uses the ioctls on
> plain files.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
> ---
> (resend with Cc: suggested by get_maintainer.pl)
>
> discussed in http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
>
> Arnd, is this what you had in mind, or did you mean to move
> all floppy compat definitions? I decided to go with the
> minimal change. Tested on both 2.6.39.2 and 3.0-rc5-63-g0d72c6f.
Yes, that should be fine, unless Jens would like to see a different
solution for the struct definitions, e.g. moving all of the floppy
compat ioctl numbers to fd.h. I'm fine with it either way.
Arnd
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