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Message-Id: <20080827.154343.18918939.davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:43:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc: alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk, petero2@...ia.com, rjw@...k.pl,
alan@...hat.com, jens.axboe@...cle.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bunk@...nel.org,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, protasnb@...il.com,
kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.27-rc4-git1: Reported regressions from 2.6.26
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
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.
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