Messages in this thread | | | From | (Zygo Blaxell) | Subject | Re: Adding checkpointing API to Linux kernel | Date | 21 Jan 1999 23:14:12 -0500 |
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In article <36A75DB9.FBF06CDB@ata-sd.com>, Steven Roberts <strobert@ata-sd.com> wrote: >speaking of ioctl's, are there any good spots to find documentaion of >all >of the ioctl's. sometimes I have found them in the driver src, somtimes >man >pages, sometimes doc directory in the general tree, etc... > >Just wondering if there is any available documentation about them in a >standard location.
Since the ioctl()'s are implemented all over the place (in the driver, in a 3rd-party module, etc...), the documentation is similarly fragmented.
It might be a good idea to document all of the ioctl()'s that are implemented somewhere in the standard kernel in a documentation repository included in the kernel source.
The only difficulty with the latter idea that I know of is that some of the documentation work will overlap with the standard man pages packages and in some ways greatly overlap with the C libraries. AFAIK this is fairly minor.
-- Zygo Blaxell (with a name like that, who needs a nick?) Linux Engineer (my favorite official job title so far) Corel Corporation (whose opinions sometimes differ from those shown above) zygob@corel.ca (also zblaxell@furryterror.org)
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