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

[Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>]

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.

	Arnd <><