Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:55:38 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix tiocgdev 32/64bit emul |
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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
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