On Monday 20 Apr 2015 13:33:16 xuw2...@gmail.com wrote:
> From: George Wang <xuw2...@gmail.com>
> 
> PPC64 arch use such following IOC values "
> \#define _IOC_NONE       1U
> \#define _IOC_READ       2U
> \#define _IOC_WRITE      4U
> " comparing to the default IOC values "
> \#define _IOC_NONE       0U
> \#define _IOC_READ       2U
> \#define _IOC_WRITE      1U"
> 
> This means the value "_IOW*" will be negative when we store it in the int
> variables. Such as the "BTRFS_IOC_QGROUP_CREATE", it will be "0x4010942e" on
> X86_64, but "0x8010942e" on PPC64.
> Notice that the IOC values are the "unsigned long" type, so we use the
> "unsigned long" to store it, and this can insure the comparison between the
> variable and BTRFS_IOC_* valid.
> 
> Signed-off-by: George Wang <xuw2...@gmail.com>

Tested-by: Chandan Rajendra <chan...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

-- 
chandan

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