On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 11:33:43AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >>For one thing, it looks like we're returning the wrong thing (EINVAL
> >>rather than ENOTTY) across the board. This was unfortunately a common
>
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
The union of things that are not typewriters and not giraffes are rather
large, indeed.
This is getting philosophical.
I think my point is that we're rather short of good quality open source
giraffe drivers.
J
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>
>> ENOTTY is so excessively misnamed that it is actually surprising
>> anybody ever got that "right" (for very small values of right i guess)
>
> But it *isn't* a typewriter. Of course, it's not a giraffe either.
>
The union of things that are not typewriters and
Andi Kleen wrote:
"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
For one thing, it looks like we're returning the wrong thing (EINVAL
rather than ENOTTY) across the board. This was unfortunately a common
misunderstanding with non-tty-related ioctls in the early days of Linux.
ENOTTY is
Andi Kleen wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> For one thing, it looks like we're returning the wrong thing (EINVAL
>> rather than ENOTTY) across the board. This was unfortunately a common
>> misunderstanding with non-tty-related ioctls in the early days of Linux.
>
> ENOTTY
"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> For one thing, it looks like we're returning the wrong thing (EINVAL
> rather than ENOTTY) across the board. This was unfortunately a common
> misunderstanding with non-tty-related ioctls in the early days of Linux.
ENOTTY is so excessively
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> Fuse-san discovered that running the umount that's part of busybox on a PS3
> with a recent kernel causes an error message to be printed on the console:
>
> | ioctl32(busybox:1340): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(4c01){t:'L';sz:0}
> arg() on /dev/sda1
>
> On
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Is there anything we can do about this?
>
> Define it as IGNORE_IOCTL in fs/compat_ioctl.c?
Works fine, thx! I'll submit a patch.
With kind regards,
Geert Uytterhoeven
Software Architect
Sony
Geert Uytterhoeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there anything we can do about this?
Define it as IGNORE_IOCTL in fs/compat_ioctl.c?
Andreas.
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Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there anything we can do about this?
Define it as IGNORE_IOCTL in fs/compat_ioctl.c?
Andreas.
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Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Andreas Schwab wrote:
Geert Uytterhoeven [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there anything we can do about this?
Define it as IGNORE_IOCTL in fs/compat_ioctl.c?
Works fine, thx! I'll submit a patch.
With kind regards,
Geert Uytterhoeven
Software Architect
Sony Network
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
Fuse-san discovered that running the umount that's part of busybox on a PS3
with a recent kernel causes an error message to be printed on the console:
| ioctl32(busybox:1340): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(4c01){t:'L';sz:0}
arg() on /dev/sda1
On older
H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For one thing, it looks like we're returning the wrong thing (EINVAL
rather than ENOTTY) across the board. This was unfortunately a common
misunderstanding with non-tty-related ioctls in the early days of Linux.
ENOTTY is so excessively misnamed that
Andi Kleen wrote:
H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For one thing, it looks like we're returning the wrong thing (EINVAL
rather than ENOTTY) across the board. This was unfortunately a common
misunderstanding with non-tty-related ioctls in the early days of Linux.
ENOTTY is so
Andi Kleen wrote:
H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For one thing, it looks like we're returning the wrong thing (EINVAL
rather than ENOTTY) across the board. This was unfortunately a common
misunderstanding with non-tty-related ioctls in the early days of Linux.
ENOTTY is so
H. Peter Anvin wrote:
The union of things that are not typewriters and not giraffes are rather
large, indeed.
This is getting philosophical.
I think my point is that we're rather short of good quality open source
giraffe drivers.
J
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
ENOTTY is so excessively misnamed that it is actually surprising
anybody ever got that right (for very small values of right i guess)
But it *isn't* a typewriter. Of course, it's not a giraffe either.
The union of things that are not typewriters and not
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 11:33:43AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
Andi Kleen wrote:
H. Peter Anvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For one thing, it looks like we're returning the wrong thing (EINVAL
rather than ENOTTY) across the board. This was unfortunately a common
misunderstanding with
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