> > 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>?
Yes. My major goof was moving stuff where user-mode programs can't find
them. Next version will have the 'generic' ioctls in
include/linux/ioctl/ioctls.h. Also, I'm shifting to using the _IOC family
of #defines instead of cryptic 0x54XX constants as much as possible.
--Scott
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