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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
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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.

Anton
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