Re: Too verbose compat_ioctl messages?

Andi Kleen wrote:

"H. Peter Anvin" [off-list ref] writes:
  

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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)
  

But it *isn't* a typewriter.  Of course, it's not a giraffe either.

    J