Re: ioctl cleanups: enable sg_io and serial stuff to be shared

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Thu May 08 2003 - 05:35:34 EST


   From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
   Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 01:50:10 +0200
   
   I checked the numbers that are in arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.o
   and found none that uses more than 9 bits for the size field,

I know that we had to change our sparc ioctl macro definitions a few
months ago to accomodate some ioctl that wanted more bits.

It isn't a theoretical problem.
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