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Date:	Sat, 24 Feb 2007 10:59:42 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ioctls.h (Re: [PATCH][RFC] Make asm-generic/ioctl.h extensible
 by adding conditionals.)

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Oleg Verych wrote:

> > From: "Robert P. J. Day"
> > Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel
> > Subject: [PATCH][RFC] Make asm-generic/ioctl.h extensible by adding conditionals.
> > Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:45:20 -0500 (EST)
>
> >   as a followup to my earlier post, is it worth making this change
> > to allow at least a couple arch-specific ioctl.h files to be
> > massively simplified?
>
> And i wonder, why there is no generic ioctls.h, hm?

beats me, but it seems that there are a *number* of arch-specific
header files that could be treated this way -- a single generic file,
allowing the small number of customizations that seem to be necessary
across all architectures.

but i figured i'd start with ioctl.h first and see where it went from
there.

rday

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