Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Mar 2004 20:57:58 +0100 | From | Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fix tiocgdev 32/64bit emul |
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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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