Re: [PATCH 6/8] staging/mei: Header file contain the Userland API, (IOCTL and its struct)

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 08:15:41AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:27:35 +0300 Oren Weil wrote:
> 
> 
> > +/*
> > + * This IOCTL is used to associate the current file descriptor with a
> > + * FW Client (given by UUID). This opens a communication channel
> > + * between a host client and a FW client. From this point every read and write
> > + * will communicate with the associated FW client.
> > + * Only in close() (file_operation release()) the communication between
> > + * the clients is disconnected
> > + *
> > + * The IOCTL argument is a struct with a union the contains
> > + * the input parameter and the output parameter for this IOCTL.
> > + *
> > + * The input parameter is UUID of the FW Client.
> > + * The output parameter is the properties of the FW client
> > + * (FW protocol version and max message size).
> > + *
> > + */
> > +#define IOCTL_MEI_CONNECT_CLIENT \
> > +	_IOWR('H' , 0x01, struct mei_connect_client_data)
> 
> 
> Please update Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt.

Not yet, this code might get that ioctl removed before it gets merged
into the main part of the kernel.

Or at least I can hope :)

thanks,

greg k-h