From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adding an ioctl or three
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:39:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091018153942.aeef78ee.rdunlap@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091018223306.17571.qmail@stuge.se>
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:33:06 +0200 Peter Stuge wrote:
> Peter Stuge wrote:
> > Is patching Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt and
> > asm/ioctls.h all?
>
> I added an ioctl into a header of my own. It works fine, but..
>
>
> > The "addressing" in ioctl-number seems a little chaotic, do I just
> > pick anything that is available?
>
> Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt seems out of date. I picked
> a number that was used (by linux/toshiba.h) but not listed. Do I have
> to grep it out?
Can you at least list what files/drivers need to be added to
Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt, please?
---
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-18 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-15 20:58 Hardware initialization in line discipline - ldisc_open() ? Peter Stuge
2009-10-15 21:31 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-15 21:46 ` Peter Stuge
2009-10-15 22:08 ` Alan Cox
2009-10-18 16:27 ` Peter Stuge
2009-10-18 22:33 ` Adding an ioctl or three Peter Stuge
2009-10-18 22:39 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2009-10-18 22:56 ` Peter Stuge
2009-10-21 17:32 ` [PATCH] docs: large update to ioctl-number.txt Randy Dunlap
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