s390/s390x ioctls

[Heiko Carstens]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 01:00:05PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 22, 2011 05:19:08 Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 04:04:21PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > anyone know what's going on with the s390 ioctls in ioctlent.h that are 8
> > > hex digits long instead of the normal 4 ?  they date back to the
> > > original port (done in 2002).  seems like garbage that can be thrown
> > > away ...
> > 
> > The more interesting question would be why the strace ioctl code seems to
> > ignore a couple of bits of the ioctl commands. In particular it seems to
> > ignore the direction and size bits.
> 
> so, for practical purposes today, the extra ioctls in the s390 headers are not 
> necessary and may safely be punted.  i'm trying to unify all the duplicated 
> ioctlent content and this was the only hold out.

Feel free to remove them.

> if, down the line, we want to fix strace itself, we can do that.  then we'd 
> add the size/direction info to all linux ports.

That, of course, would be the preferred way ;)