Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jan 1998 10:14:20 +0100 | From | Martin von Loewis <> | Subject | Re: Patch: ioctl MESS! |
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> Enclosed is a patch to remove as much as possible of the duplicated ioctl > definitions into asm-generic. Currently, if one wants to add an ioctl to > the kernel, one has to patch asm-*/ioctls.h for every architecture > supported -- invariably missing one, or causing integration problems when > new architectures are merged into the standard kernel. By moving as many > ioctls as possible to asm-generic/ioctls.h, I attempt to limit the code > spread.
Does this mean that user mode programs cannot get the definitions of these values, anymore? If you move them, why not into <linux/ioctl.h>?
Martin
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