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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix tiocgdev 32/64bit emul
Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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/X0-rawconsole-B5

No. It was never announced on lkml, so I couldn't know of its existence.

Andi, Miquel: is the rawconsole patch usable for blogd?

Christoph: Have you looked at my question regarding
/sys/class/tty/console/dev ?


Regards,
Carl-Daniel

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