Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Oct 2002 00:38:22 +1000 | From | Anton Blanchard <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Device-mapper submission 6/7 |
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> AFAIK Linus and Al Viro (and myself <g>) have always considered ioctls > an ugly -ism that should have never made it into Unix. Over and above > the Unix/VFS design problems with ioctl(2), ioctl(2) is a pain for > people like David Miller who must maintain 32<->64 bit ioctl translation > layers for their architecture. ia64 and x64-64 must do this too. Each > ioctl you add is an additional headache for them.
And ppc64 :) Lately Dave, Andi and I seem to be spending too much time bouncing fixes around for 32/64 bit ioctl and syscall translation code.
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