Re: [PATCH 12/15] Documentation: Reserve ioctl number for mshv driver

From: Wei Liu
Date: Thu Aug 03 2023 - 17:05:43 EST


On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 07:23:31AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote:
> Wei Liu <wei.liu@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > This needs an ack from Jonathan.
>
> From me? If every docs change needed an ack from me we'd be in rather
> worse shape than we are now. You can certainly have one:
>
> Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
>
> ...but I don't control ioctl() numbers and don't need to gate-keep a
> change like this.

Thanks Jonathan.

MAINTAINERS says you're the maintainer for Documentation, and I couldn't
find who owns userspace-api or who controls the allocation of ioctl
numbers.

Thanks,
Wei.

>
> Thanks,
>
> jon
>
> > On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 12:54:47PM -0700, Nuno Das Neves wrote:
> >> Signed-off-by: Nuno Das Neves <nunodasneves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >> Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst | 2 ++
> >> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
> >> index 0a1882e296ae..ca6b82419118 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
> >> +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
> >> @@ -355,6 +355,8 @@ Code Seq# Include File Comments
> >> 0xB6 all linux/fpga-dfl.h
> >> 0xB7 all uapi/linux/remoteproc_cdev.h <mailto:linux-remoteproc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> 0xB7 all uapi/linux/nsfs.h <mailto:Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>>
> >> +0xB8 all uapi/linux/mshv.h Microsoft Hypervisor VM management APIs
> >> + <mailto:linux-hyperv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> 0xC0 00-0F linux/usb/iowarrior.h
> >> 0xCA 00-0F uapi/misc/cxl.h
> >> 0xCA 10-2F uapi/misc/ocxl.h
> >> --
> >> 2.25.1
> >>