Re: [RFC] Remove or convert empty ioctls ?

[Alan Cox]

> "no particular value" is highly subjective, and I think unprovable, 
> without an exhaustive survey of userland programs interacting with 
> kernel drivers.  Userland programs often interact with a -class- of 
> drivers, expecting predictable behavior from a DoThisThing ioctl, with 
> EINVAL or "other weird error code" returned intentionally.
> 
> Changing the return codes seems quite unwise.

We've changed lots of them to -ENOTTY over the past few years, nobody has
even noticed (you included ;))

SuS says an unknown ioctl code returns -ENOTTY.

Alan
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