Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:33:39 +0200 | From | Artem Bityutskiy <> | Subject | Re: UBI/DVB ioctl conflict? |
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Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 08 December 2008, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: >> On Mon, 2008-12-08 at 10:41 +0100, Laurent Pinchart wrote: >>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this only matters for devices that would >>> implement both the UBI and DVB API on the same inode ? That would be quite >>> unlikely. >> Yeah, I guess. But this anyway makes sense to keep ioctls >> non-overlapping. > > We try hard (but sometimes fail) to keep every ioctl number unique. > The reason for this is that the device drivers are not the only > pieces of code that look at them. Specifically, three other things > frequently cause problems here:
Thanks for the reply. Do you know the status of the Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt file - it does not seem to be up-to-date. Should I document add UBI ioctls there?
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