On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 02:50:01 -0500 Chuck Ebbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, 13 Dec 2006 05:39:43 +0100, Kasper Sandberg wrote: > > > do you think it may be a bug in the kernel? the stuff with wine that > > gets thrown in the kernel messages? > > Let's just say the behavior has changed. It now returns > -EINVAL instead of -ENOTTY when the msdos IOCTLs fail. For an unknown ioctl the correct return is -ENOTTY. For an invalid ioctl (known but wrong parameters) it may be -EINVAL. > Anyway, here is a much simpler patch that restores the previous > behavior (but leaves the message.) However if you aren't having > any problems now other than the messages maybe there's no real > problem after all? As far as I can see from a quick review the code should return -ENOTTY in this situation not -EINVAL, for all unhandled ioctls. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
