Re: PATCH: ioctl reorganization

C. Scott Ananian (cananian@lcs.mit.edu)
Fri, 23 Jan 1998 18:31:17 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 23 Jan 1998, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > numeric constants. Again, the purpose of this patch is to centralize the
> > ioctl lists as much as possible and remove unnecessary code duplication.

> I really do not like idea of include/linux/ioctl with single file. Is
> it possible to move it to include/linux?

Well, I want to discourage people from using it --- it's meant to be
included from asm-{arch}/ioctls.h, not included by itself. I'm worried
that if I call it <linux/ioctls.h>, people will confuse it with
<linux/ioctl.h>.

I am open for other names, though. [Maybe I can put it in <linux/ioctls.h>
and flag it with #error if it is not included from asm-{arch}/ioctls.h?]
--Scott
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