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Message-ID: <ZMwWmZThinOGSP+s@liuwe-devbox-debian-v2>
Date:   Thu, 3 Aug 2023 21:05:29 +0000
From:   Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>,
        Nuno Das Neves <nunodasneves@...ux.microsoft.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] Documentation: Reserve ioctl number for mshv driver

On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 07:23:31AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org> writes:
> 
> > This needs an ack from Jonathan.
> 
> From me?  If every docs change needed an ack from me we'd be in rather
> worse shape than we are now.  You can certainly have one:
> 
> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
> 
> ...but I don't control ioctl() numbers and don't need to gate-keep a
> change like this.

Thanks Jonathan.

MAINTAINERS says you're the maintainer for Documentation, and I couldn't
find who owns userspace-api or who controls the allocation of ioctl
numbers.

Thanks,
Wei.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> jon
> 
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 12:54:47PM -0700, Nuno Das Neves wrote:
> >> Signed-off-by: Nuno Das Neves <nunodasneves@...ux.microsoft.com>
> >> ---
> >>  Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst | 2 ++
> >>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >> 
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
> >> index 0a1882e296ae..ca6b82419118 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
> >> +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
> >> @@ -355,6 +355,8 @@ Code  Seq#    Include File                                           Comments
> >>  0xB6  all    linux/fpga-dfl.h
> >>  0xB7  all    uapi/linux/remoteproc_cdev.h                            <mailto:linux-remoteproc@...r.kernel.org>
> >>  0xB7  all    uapi/linux/nsfs.h                                       <mailto:Andrei Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>>
> >> +0xB8  all    uapi/linux/mshv.h                                       Microsoft Hypervisor VM management APIs
> >> +                                                                     <mailto:linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org>
> >>  0xC0  00-0F  linux/usb/iowarrior.h
> >>  0xCA  00-0F  uapi/misc/cxl.h
> >>  0xCA  10-2F  uapi/misc/ocxl.h
> >> -- 
> >> 2.25.1
> >>