Subject: Re: Too verbose compat_ioctl messages?

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 11:36:47 -0700

Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>>
>> ENOTTY is so excessively misnamed that it is actually surprising
>> anybody ever got that "right" (for very small values of right i guess)
> 
> But it *isn't* a typewriter.  Of course, it's not a giraffe either.
> 

The union of things that are not typewriters and not giraffes are rather
large, indeed.

This is getting philosophical.

	-hpa