Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Jan 1998 01:00:16 +0100 | From | ralf@uni-kobl ... | Subject | Re: TIOCGSID problem with MIPS |
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On Sun, Jan 25, 1998 at 06:57:35PM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Jan 1998 ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 07:02:06PM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote: > > > > > The MIPS architecture is missing an IOCTL define used in > > > drivers/char/tty_io.c. This is against 2.1.81. Without this patch, I do > > > not believe that the tty support for MIPS will compile. > > > > Indeed - but MIPS isn't yet fully integrated into Linus' kernel. I ran > > out of time temporarily while working on that :-( > > The original patch was against 2.1.81-pre1; the TIOCGSID #define made it > into 2.1.81 final. > > Are there historical reasons why linux-MIPS uses radically different ioctl > numbers from those of the other linux ports? I think there's only 8 > ioctls that have the same values in linux-MIPS and linux-x86/m68k/ARM...
Most of the values are as required by the MIPS ABI. Not the best choice looking back but it's too late ...
Ralf
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