On Sunday 26 June 2011 20:51:37 Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> >
> > I mean what do you return to vfs_ioctl from v4l? The conversions must
> > have been long before we introduced compat_ioctl and ENOIOCTLCMD.
> >
> > As far as I can tell, video_ioctl2 has always converted ENOIOCTLCMD into
> > EINVAL, so changing the vfs functions would not have any effect.
>
> Yes. This discussion was originated by a RFC patch proposing to change
> video_ioctl2 to return -ENOIOCTLCMD instead of -EINVAL.
Ok, I see. So returning -ENOIOCTLCMD is not an option IMHO, but if you
are confident that it doesn't break anything, returning -ENOTTY would
be possible and doesn't require any core changes.
Arnd
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