Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

[Alan Cox]

> >     else
> >             error
> 
> Ugh. You do this?

Lots of apps do it - hdparm, mt-st, lilo

> The fix, I think, is to make the ioctl commands much more regular. That is
> probably true in general, and fixing that would hopefully fix the need for
> horrible code like the above.

Definitely.  Some of it would remain but it becomes

                if(ioctl(foo)==-EOPNOTSUPP)
                        bang_it_nby_hand()

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