Re: [Pv-drivers] [PATCH 12/12] VMCI: Some header and config files.

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Fri Nov 30 2012 - 15:12:01 EST


On Friday, November 30, 2012 10:57:55 AM Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:45:44AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > However you snipped the rest of my reply: do we really need to renumber
> > ioctls? There is no benefit for the driver as its ioctl handler does
> > not parse the numbers into components.
>
> I don't know if you need to renumber, I really don't understand what you
> were trying to do with this code, and as it was acting differently from
> all other kernel ioctl declarations, I asked for some clarity.
>
> If you can rewrite it to look sane, and keep the same numbers, that's
> fine with me.

OK, it looks like we can redo them as:

#define IOCTL_VMCI_VERSION _IO(7, 0x9f) /* 1951 */
#define IOCTL_VMCI_INIT_CONTEXT _IO(7, 0xa0) /* 1952 */

Is this acceptable?

Thanks,
Dmitry
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