Re: Too verbose compat_ioctl messages?

[Jeremy Fitzhardinge]

Andi Kleen wrote:
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>   
> > For one thing, it looks like we're returning the wrong thing (EINVAL
> > rather than ENOTTY) across the board.  This was unfortunately a common
> > misunderstanding with non-tty-related ioctls in the early days of Linux.
> >     
>
> ENOTTY is so excessively misnamed that it is actually surprising
> anybody ever got that "right" (for very small values of right i guess)
>   

But it *isn't* a typewriter.  Of course, it's not a giraffe either.

   J
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