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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@yandex.ru>
Cc: dedekind@infradead.org,
	Laurent Pinchart <laurentp@cse-semaphore.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	v4l-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: UBI/DVB ioctl conflict?
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 21:30:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812082130.14420.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <493D4C63.5040502@yandex.ru>

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 <><

  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-08 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20081207095811.13b51cca@zod.rchland.ibm.com>
2008-12-08  6:20 ` UBI/DVB ioctl conflict? Artem Bityutskiy
2008-12-08  9:41   ` Laurent Pinchart
2008-12-08  9:51     ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-12-08 15:50       ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-12-08 16:33         ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-12-08 20:30           ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2008-12-08 13:31     ` Jamie Lokier

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