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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Elias Vanderstuyft <elias.vds@gmail.com>
Cc: "open list:HID CORE LAYER" <linux-input@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: EVIOCSFF macro inconsistency
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2014 11:31:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140908183157.GA36623@core.coreip.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADbOyBRcKFntUAruYTGcqzt2Vi=MHJDFoZK5v4fE8WLFjT0viw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi ELias,

On Mon, Sep 08, 2014 at 08:14:13PM +0200, Elias Vanderstuyft wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> After inspecting the <linux/input.h> header file, I found that there
> is one single ioctl value macro that is inconsistent w.r.t. the other
> macros that do an IOC_WRITE :
>     EVIOCSFF   _IOC(_IOC_WRITE, 'E', 0x80, sizeof(struct ff_effect))
> Why not define it as follows? :
>     EVIOCSFF   _IOW('E', 0x80, struct ff_effect)
> Apart from having a more readable definition, it also explicitly
> reveals type info ("struct ff_effect").

I think it is just historical.

> Is it worth to create a patch to fix it?

Sure, why not.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-08 18:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-08 18:14 EVIOCSFF macro inconsistency Elias Vanderstuyft
2014-09-08 18:31 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2014-09-08 19:03   ` Elias Vanderstuyft
2014-09-08 20:24     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2014-09-08 20:42       ` Elias Vanderstuyft

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