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Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:33:06 +0200
From: Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adding an ioctl or three
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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Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt seems out of date.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?


//Peter