On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Jean Delvare wrote:

Fix build failure in hiddev_ioctl with gcc 3.2:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10121
The trick is to move the handling of ioctls which need to allocate
memory to separate functions.

Hmm, I can't say I like doing these shuffles just because of gcc 3.2 
behvior ... but as there are apparently already other patches in Linus' 
tree which did just that, I will have to follow this precedent.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs