Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] Documentation: ioctl-number: Carve out some identifiers for use by sample drivers

Greg KH
2024-12-06T06:46:20Z

On Thu, Dec 05, 2024 at 04:25:19PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> 32 IDs should be plenty (at yet, not too greedy) since a lot of sample
> drivers will use their own subsystem allocations.
>
> Sample drivers predominately reside in <KERNEL_ROOT>/samples, but there
> should be no issue with in-place example drivers using them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
> ---
> Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
> index 243f1f1b554a..dc4bc0cab69f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
> @@ -311,6 +311,7 @@ Code Seq# Include File Comments
> <mailto:oe@port.de>
> 'z' 10-4F drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_api.h conflict!
> '|' 00-7F linux/media.h
> +'|' 80-9F samples/ Any sample and example drivers

This is fine, but why does the sample driver use "R" as the key instead?

thanks,

greg k-h