Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261328AbTEHLay (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 07:30:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261336AbTEHLay (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 07:30:54 -0400 Received: from pizda.ninka.net ([216.101.162.242]:20105 "EHLO pizda.ninka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261328AbTEHLax (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 May 2003 07:30:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 03:35:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20030508.033534.74727769.davem@redhat.com> To: arnd@arndb.de Cc: pavel@ucw.cz, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ioctl cleanups: enable sg_io and serial stuff to be shared From: "David S. Miller" In-Reply-To: <200305080150.10697.arnd@arndb.de> References: <200305072113.07004.arnd@arndb.de> <20030507.111245.25138161.davem@redhat.com> <200305080150.10697.arnd@arndb.de> X-FalunGong: Information control. X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 621 Lines: 15 From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 01:50:10 +0200 I checked the numbers that are in arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.o and found none that uses more than 9 bits for the size field, I know that we had to change our sparc ioctl macro definitions a few months ago to accomodate some ioctl that wanted more bits. It isn't a theoretical problem. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/