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Message-Id: <200710301743.l9UHhNdQ032336@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:43:23 -0400
From: Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>, viro@....linux.org.uk,
akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] VFS: swap do_ioctl and vfs_ioctl names
In message <20071030171436.GA15922@...radead.org>, Christoph Hellwig writes:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:22:40AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > They are just treated as part of the parameter explanation text.
> > I don't see any problem with them.
>
> Well, it's completely inconsistant with any other kerneldoc..
If it doesn't hurt, and kerneldoc will present it as such, then I'd leave
the [in/out] in place. Ioctls are the few places where you can have
variables used as both input and output; so _somehow_ we need to capture
that behavior.
Erez.
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