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Linus Torvalds wrote:

>(Right now you can see this in block_ioctl.c - while only a few of the
>ioctl's have been converted, you get the idea. I'm actually surprised that
>nobody seems to have commented on that part).
>

That was just too obvious, at least for me... However I don't see why 
you just don't start killing of constructs like:

swtch  (ioctrl)

    BLASH:
BLAHHH:
 BLASHH:
 BLAASS:
     BLAH:
    default:
            return -ENOVAL;
}

There are ton' s of them out there in the block drivers..