Re: duplicated ioctl32 handler

Brian F. G. Bidulock wrote:

>  - For LiS I will rip the ioctl conversion hash table and the cdrom
>    conversion functions from the system map and override the CDROM
>    ioctls with a function that checks for character or block device and
>    then either calls the CDROM conversion or calls the STREAMS
>    conversions.
> 
>  - For Linux Fast-STREAMS I will take the same approach before kernel
>    2.6.11.  For kernel 2.6.11 and beyond I will define the compat_ioctl
>    file operation to perform device specific conversions. (LiS cannot
>    handle unlocked ioctls so this approach is pointless for LiS.)

Why does LiS need the kernel lock for ioctls?

What about using compat_ioctl() for LiS and have the underlying function
grab the kernel lock before it does anything else?

	Steve

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