Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755797Ab0GVSEs (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:04:48 -0400 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:41951 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751585Ab0GVSEn convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:04:43 -0400 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:04:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Stefan Richter Subject: Re: [review patch 3/2] firewire: nosy: note ioctls in ioctl-number.txt To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sf.net, Kristian Hoegsberg , Randy Dunlap In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20100722090751.682f3b00.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> <4C487F2B.4040405@s5r6.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: INLINE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1843 Lines: 45 On 22 Jul, Stefan Richter wrote: > These are the ioctls for the special-purpose misc device /dev/nosy, the > interface to the IEEE 1394 packet sniffer/ protocol analyzer driver. > Currently only the numbers 00...02 are in use; let's block a few more > for unforeseen use cases. > > Cc: Randy Dunlap > Cc: Kristian Høgsberg > Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter > --- > > As mentioned in patch 1/2, this is up for discussion. These ioctls have > been used during nosy's out-of-tree life for several years; but due to > the nature of this driver and its frontend as special-purpose > application on special hardware, an incompatible change of these ioctls > in the process of mainline merge won't be overly hurtful. > > Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > Index: b/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt > =================================================================== > --- a/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt > +++ b/Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt > @@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ Code Seq#(hex) Include File Comments > 0x22 all scsi/sg.h > '#' 00-3F IEEE 1394 Subsystem Block for the entire subsystem > '$' 00-0F linux/perf_counter.h, linux/perf_event.h > +'&' 00-07 drivers/firewire/nosy-user.h > '1' 00-1F PPS kit from Ulrich Windl > > '2' 01-04 linux/i2o.h > (Sorry, I mistyped the mailinglist address in that posting...) -- Stefan Richter -=====-==-=- -=== =-==- http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/