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Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:36:19 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: ioctl32 consolidation
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   From: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
   Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 14:56:22 -0800
   
   Eventually we'll be able to kill ugly mess like arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.c.
   That stuff really belongs to the actual subsystems that implement those ioctls.

Not really possible with things like SIOCDEVPRIVATE...
Those need special processing and even that is insufficient.
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