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Message-ID: <4D70DA8D.9070603@dresearch.de>
Date:	Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:26:53 +0100
From:	Steffen Sledz <sledz@...search.de>
To:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	"Pekka Savola (ipv6)" <pekkas@...core.fi>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>,
	Mario Schuknecht <m.schuknecht@...search.de>,
	Steffen Sledz <sledz@...search.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] tcp: ioctl type SIOCOUTQNSD returns amount of data
 not sent

Am 04.03.2011 12:49, schrieb Alan Cox:
> ...
>>> Signed-off-by: Mario Schuknecht <m.schuknecht@...search.de>
>>> ---
>>>  include/asm-generic/ioctls.h |    1 +
>>>  include/linux/sockios.h      |    1 +
>>>  net/ipv4/tcp.c               |    9 +++++++++
>>>  3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/ioctls.h b/include/asm-generic/ioctls.h
>>> index a321665..b87115b 100644
>>> --- a/include/asm-generic/ioctls.h
>>> +++ b/include/asm-generic/ioctls.h
>>> @@ -72,6 +72,7 @@
>>>  #define TCSETXF		0x5434
>>>  #define TCSETXW		0x5435
>>>  #define TIOCSIG		_IOW('T', 0x36, int)  /* pty: generate signal */
>>> +#define TIOCOUTQNSD	0x5437
>
> These are tty not socket ioctl codes. For various historical reasons some
> of them got sort of emulated by the socket layer in Unix and thus in
> Linux.
>
> If you plan to add one to Linux then please post the accompanying *tty
> layer* patches and reasoning, otherwise if it is socket only please stick
> to the socket ioctl.

So we should define the new SIOCOUTQNSD in sockios.h only and not similiar to SIOCOUTQ using TIOCOUTQ. Right?

Steffen

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