[TESTING]: twe/twa ioctl change

Roman Divacky rdivacky at freebsd.org
Thu Jun 25 11:53:53 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:49:07PM +0100, ianjhart at ntlworld.com wrote:
> Quoting Roman Divacky <rdivacky at freebsd.org>:
> 
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> >hi
> >
> >if you have twe or twa card with management software please test this 
> >patch:
> >
> >   	http://www.vlakno.cz/~rdivacky/tw-ioctl-fix.patch
> >
> >the testing will be especially useful on amd64 machine.
> >
> >thnx!
> >
> >roman
> >
> >
> 
> Is this a general bug fix patch, or is it only for 3dm users?
> 
> i.e. What symptom does it address?

this is not meant to fix anything in particular. this fixes the bit width
of a ioctl command argument that can cause problems on machines where
int is not the same size as long (amd64 for example)

I am quite fine if you test the patch and say "management software still works"

roman


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