Re: [PATCH] use size_t for the broken ioctl numbers

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 08:13:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > I'd _much_ rather have a comment than make up some new "bad define" thing.
> 
> Pity.

Note that Arnd's "extra-anal check" added a XXX_BAD() define after all, 
and I ended up accepting that one, because it had a totally valid usage: 
it fixed a real issue not with bad type passing, but with passing types 
that are too _big_. 

I fixed two cases that I found where this was the case, there might be
others (I did a maxconfig, but on SMP. There might be some UP-only driver
that is affected by this).

But I'm too lazy to go back and fix up the older fixes, so..

		Linus

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