On Fri, 9 Mar 2007, Stefan Richter wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > if someone can't immediately see what i'm trying > > to do given the previously-posted patch, then they shouldn't be > > commenting on it one way or the other. > > I'm not sure if you are addressing me too. Just to clarify: I > wasn't commenting on the patch, I only commented on what I quoted in > my reply.
sorry, i worded that *really* badly. i didn't mean to imply that *you* were incapable of understanding what the patch represented -- i've seen enough of your posts to appreciate your technical expertise. all i want to know is if the proposed patch making include/asm-generic/ioctl.h more flexible is even *theoretically* a feasible thing to do, or whether anyone on this list would have any howling objections to it. not only that, but i would *prefer* to submit just that file as a first patch all by itself since, again theoretically, it shouldn't break anything and i'd like to verify that first before trying to simplify any of the arch-specific ioctl.h files one at a time. as it is, the number of arch-specific ioctl.h files that could potentially be made *much* shorter are for the arches: mips parisc alpha sparc sparc-64 powerpc all the rest simply include asm-generic/ioctl.h directly. rday p.s. for those who may have come in late, the proposed new asm-generic/ioctl.h file would allow an includer to override any or all of: _IOC_SIZEBITS _IOC_DIRBITS _IOC_NONE _IOC_WRITE _IOC_READ AFAICT, those are the only differences across the entire spectrum of ioctl.h files. if there's something i've missed, feel free to let me know. -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
