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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@yandex.ru>
Subject: Re: UBI/DVB ioctl conflict?
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 21:30:13 +0100
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On Monday 08 December 2008, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > We try hard (but sometimes fail) to keep every ioctl number unique.
> > The reason for this is that the device drivers are not the only
> > pieces of code that look at them. Specifically, three other things
> > frequently cause problems here:
> 
> Thanks for the reply. Do you know the status of the
> Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt file - it does not seem to be up-to-date.
> Should I document add UBI ioctls there?

Yes, please. The best we can do is if everyone documents his own stuff.

	Arnd <><