linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH] ext4: use generic names for generic ioctls

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Date:   Thu, 6 Aug 2020 01:36:19 -0400
From:   tytso@....edu
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@...ger.ca>,
        linux-fscrypt@...r.kernel.org, Jiaheng Hu <jiahengh@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ext4: use generic names for generic ioctls

On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 04:09:09PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> 
> Don't define EXT4_IOC_* aliases to ioctls that already have a generic
> FS_IOC_* name.  These aliases are unnecessary, and they make it unclear
> which ioctls are ext4-specific and which are generic.
> 
> Exception: leave EXT4_IOC_GETVERSION_OLD and EXT4_IOC_SETVERSION_OLD
> as-is for now, since renaming them to FS_IOC_GETVERSION and
> FS_IOC_SETVERSION would probably make them more likely to be confused
> with EXT4_IOC_GETVERSION and EXT4_IOC_SETVERSION which also exist.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

Thanks, applied.

					- Ted