Re: [PATCH 3/5] perf_counter: rework ioctl()s

From: Paul Mackerras
Date: Tue May 12 2009 - 02:25:00 EST


Peter Zijlstra writes:

> Thanks, I missed that little detail.
>
> Do we still want the new ioctl iteration flag?

Not sure; it might be useful sometimes, I guess. We do need to clear
up the confusion about whether one does ioctl(fd, ..., flag) or
ioctl(fd, ..., &flag), and if the former we shouldn't be using _IOW,
as Arnd pointed out.

Paul.
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