RE: 2.4.25-rc1: Inconsistent ioctl symbol usage in drivers/messag e/fusion/mptctl.c

[Mikael Pettersson]

Moore, Eric Dean writes:
 > If we pass NULL as the 2nd parameter for register_ioctl32_conversion(),
 > the mpt_ioctl() entry point is *not* called when running a 32 bit
 > application in x86_64 mode.

Ok, but you still don't need sys_ioctl() since the one-liner

 > > filp->f_op->ioctl(filp->f_dentry->d_inode, filp, cmd, arg)

(or a hardcoded call to your ioctl() method) suffices.

sys_ioctl() mostly just checks for special case ioctls before
doing the line above, but those special cases can't occur
since the kernel has already matched your particular ioctl.

/Mikael
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