Re: Too verbose compat_ioctl messages?

On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 11:33:43AM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:

Andi Kleen wrote:

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"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. 

Most ioctls are not related to ttys in any way.

-Andi