Re: Too verbose compat_ioctl messages?

"H. Peter Anvin" [off-list ref] 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)

-Andi