> >> 2. removal of the rvalp arg from the ioctl signature.
 > >>
 > >> the rvalp is useful if you want the ioctl to return something other than 
 > >> 0 or -1. e.g. if you want to have your own error space other than use 
 > >> the unix error space, you can return the error code this way. without 
 > >> this, you'd have to embed a diagnostic value in each of your ioctl 
 > >> command structures, which would still work but is not an ideal solution.

So how would this mechanism work?  That is, how does the framework know
that *rvalp has been set, and how does the resulting error code get
propagated up to userland?

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meem
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