Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755212AbYH0Wn4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:43:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752675AbYH0Wns (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:43:48 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:35105 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752673AbYH0Wnr (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:43:47 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:43:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20080827.154343.18918939.davem@davemloft.net> To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, petero2@telia.com, rjw@sisk.pl, alan@redhat.com, jens.axboe@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bunk@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, protasnb@gmail.com, kernel-testers@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc4-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.26 From: David Miller In-Reply-To: References: <20080827230828.4285022b@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.1 on Emacs 22.1 / 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 List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 769 Lines: 16 From: Linus Torvalds 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. -- 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/