From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: Proposal: block(4) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:57:02 -0400 Message-ID: <20100922135702.GA19439@infradead.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Mark Robson Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 03:51:56PM +0100, Mark Robson wrote: > Hi, > > Looking at the sd(4) man page, there appear to be some BLK* ioctls > documented, but these don't really belong here, as some of them apply to all > block devices. > > Should the common functions of a block device appear on a new page, block(4) > and refer to hd(4), sd(4), ram(4) etc as necessary? > > I would create one if there was some interest. Yes, please do. Besides the completely generic ioctls implemented in blkdev_ioctl it would also be good to have a manpage for the "generic scsi" ioctls in scsi_cmd_ioctl. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html