Re: [PATCH] Change paride driver to use unlocked_ioctl instead ofioctl

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Wed Jan 09 2008 - 08:27:17 EST


On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Matthew Wilcox wrote:

> > default:
> > printk("%s: Unimplemented ioctl 0x%x\n", tape->name, cmd);
> > + unlock_kernel();
> > return -EINVAL;
> Surely a bug ... shouldn't this return -ENOTTY?

What POSIX states [1]:

[EINVAL]
The request or arg argument is not valid for this device.

[ENOTTY]
The fildes argument is not associated with a STREAMS device that
accepts control functions.

[1] http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/ioctl.html

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Jiri Kosina
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