From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262282AbULMT51 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:57:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261337AbULMTyU (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:54:20 -0500 Received: from bv-n-3b5d.adsl.wanadoo.nl ([212.129.187.93]:16137 "EHLO legolas.dynup.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262316AbULMTtS (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Dec 2004 14:49:18 -0500 From: Rudmer van Dijk To: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc3-mm1 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 20:49:11 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 Cc: marado@student.dei.uc.pt, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20041213020319.661b1ad9.akpm@osdl.org> <200412131910.24255.rudmer@legolas.dynup.net> <20041213113336.02a0abfd.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20041213113336.02a0abfd.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200412132049.11750.rudmer@legolas.dynup.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Monday 13 December 2004 20:33, Andrew Morton wrote: > Rudmer van Dijk wrote: > > > OTOH, while I had no problems with the previous mm's or with > > > 2.6.10-rc3, > > > > > > with -rc3-mm1 kdm has an weird function: with kdm/unstable uptodate > > > 4:3.3.1-3 from Debian it just restarts X when it's going to show the > > > login/password form, restarting over and over. > > > > saw it too with gdm on Gentoo, > > It's probably the ioctl screwup. > > > From: Mikael Pettersson > > The ioctl-cleanup.patch in 2.6.10-rc3-mm1 broke the file ioctls: FIONREAD > etc. These ioctls have inline code for S_ISREG() cases, but should be > redirected to ->ioctl() for other cases. ioctl-cleanup.patch removed that > redirection. > > For me, both emacs and X refused to start from a console with ENOTTY > errors; at least emacs got the ENOTTY from FIONREAD. > the patch fixed it, all is working now. thanks, Rudmer