[RFC] Remove or convert empty ioctls ?

[Thomas Gleixner]

Hi,

while looking into pushing down BKL to ioctls I noticed that we have a
lot of ioctls which simply return -EINVAL or some other fancy error
code.

The question is whether we should convert them to unlocked_ioctl or
simply remove them and let the sys_ioctl code return the default
-ENOTTY error code.

One could argue that this is a user visible change, but OTOH there is
no particular value of EINVAL or any other weird error code when it
just says: there is no ioctl for this fd.

Thanks,

	tglx
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