Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:12:30 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [ patch 6/7] drivers/serial/jsm: new serial device driver |
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On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:42:31AM -0600, Kilau, Scott wrote: > Hi Wendy, Greg, all, > > If IBM intends on our DPA management program to work for the JSM > products, the ioctls are needed.
Wendy, what is IBM's stance on this?
> DPA support is a requirement for all Digi drivers, so it would > not be possible for me to remove them from my "dgnc" version > of the driver.
"requirement" from whom and to who? The Linux kernel community?
> For the JSM driver, its up to you whether you feel its needed or not. > > However, I would like to mention that the DIGI drivers that currently > reside in the kernel sources *do* reserve that ioctl space, > and is acknowledged by "Documentation/ioctl-number.txt": > > d' F0-FF linux/digi1.h > > I understand that the list is not a reservation list, > but a current list of potential ioctl conflicts...
It's not a reservation issue, it's the fact that we don't want to allow new ioctls, and if we do, they had better work properly (your implementation does not.)
thanks,
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