Re: ioctl cleanups: enable sg_io and serial stuff to be shared

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Thu, 08 May 2003 03:35:34 -0700 (PDT)

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 01:50:10 +0200

I checked the numbers that are in arch/sparc64/kernel/ioctl32.o
and found none that uses more than 9 bits for the size field,

I know that we had to change our sparc ioctl macro definitions a few
months ago to accomodate some ioctl that wanted more bits.

It isn't a theoretical problem.
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