linux-kernel - Re: ioctls.h (Re: [PATCH][RFC] Make asm-generic/ioctl.h extensible by adding conditionals.)

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Date:	Sat, 24 Feb 2007 17:30:11 +0100
From:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
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, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:59:42AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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.

Indeed.

Thank you!

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