Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:43:43 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: 2.6.27-rc4-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.26 | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:38:16 -0700 (PDT)
> Btw, why is unlocked_ioctl returning "long"? Does anybody depend on that > too? That's another difference between the "unlocked" and the traditional > version..
The return values want to be "long" sign extended all the way back down to syscall dispatch, I think this is just an effort to add some consistency here so that the int --> long extension eventually can be eliminated once unlocked_ioctl is the only case left.
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