Re: [PATCH 4/6] headers_check fix: mips, ioctl.h

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 10:34:00AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> On Thursday 04 June 2009, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > Any specific reason why mips does not use include/asm-generic/ioctl.h?
> > Had mips done so this would not have been an issue.
> 
> The original include/asm-generic/ioctl.h did not allow overriding
> the values of _IOC_{SIZEBITS,DIRBITS,NONE,READ,WRITE}, so it
> was initially not possible to use it.
> 
> Nowadays, you can simply use the same approach as powerpc:
> 
> #ifndef _ASM_MIPS_IOCTL_H
> #define _ASM_MIPS_IOCTL_H
> 
> #define _IOC_SIZEBITS	13
> #define _IOC_DIRBITS	3
> 
> #define _IOC_NONE	1U
> #define _IOC_READ	2U
> #define _IOC_WRITE	4U
> 
> /*
>  * The following are included for compatibility
>  */
> #define _IOC_VOID	0x20000000
> #define _IOC_OUT	0x40000000
> #define _IOC_IN		0x80000000
> #define _IOC_INOUT	(IOC_IN|IOC_OUT)
> 
> #include <asm-generic/ioctl.h>
> 
> #endif	/* _ASM_MIPS_IOCTL_H */
> 
> This would indeed be a cleaner fix.

In fact that's almost identical to what I already have.  But I don't even
recall what _IOC_VOID, _IOC_OUT, _IOC_IN and _IOC_INOUT were meant to be
compatible with.  They were added in 2.1.14 so presumably they've become
irrlevant, so I've dropped them.  I bet nobody will notice.

  Ralf