linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Documentation: ioctl-number: Update outdated submission info

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Message-ID: <87r011x56i.fsf@trenco.lwn.net>
Date: Tue, 06 May 2025 07:03:01 -0600
From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List
 <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Linux Documentation
 <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Frederic Barrat
 <fbarrat@...ux.ibm.com>, Andrew Donnellan <ajd@...ux.ibm.com>, Michael
 Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, Alyssa Ross <hi@...ssa.is>, Rodolfo
 Giometti <giometti@...eenne.com>, Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>,
 Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>, Nuno Das Neves
 <nunodasneves@...ux.microsoft.com>, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>,
 Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...hat.com>, Lee
 Jones <lee@...nel.org>, Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: ioctl-number: Update outdated submission
 info

Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com> writes:

> Much like device numbers that used to be assigned by LANANA (see commit
> ebdf4040c16df5 ("Documentation: update the devices.txt documentation"),
> ioctl numbers list is maintained by general kernel community nowadays
> instead of contacting Michael directly as he's long stepped down from
> kernel-related activity (his last LKML message was from 2003 [1] and
> he's in CREDITS since the beginning of kernel's git history). Also,
> patch (including one to update ioctl numbers list) submission now
> follows process as described in
> Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst rather than sending
> patches directly to Linus as in the distant past.
>
> Update the docs to reflect that.
>
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/200305261446.h4QEkBVv023861@duracef.shout.net/ [1]
> Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>

Applied, thanks.

jon