From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 05:35:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 05:35:41 -0400 Received: from sj-msg-core-3.cisco.com ([171.70.157.152]:8345 "EHLO sj-msg-core-3.cisco.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 05:35:22 -0400 Message-ID: <3B8E08B8.F4856A47@cisco.com> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:04:48 +0530 From: Manik Raina Organization: Cisco Systems X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-12 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: ioctl conflicts In-Reply-To: <20010828145304Z.haba@pdc.kth.se> <3B8DEF9D.26F7544D@cisco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org If the parameters were the same, we would have the same number. Even though they go different places, we would have the same number mapping into different ioctls. that doesn't look too good. > The size of the argument has a different size, so they end up with > different magic numbers because of that. >