Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] Documentation: ioctl-number: Carve out some identifiers for use by sample drivers
From: Lee Jones
Date: Fri Dec 06 2024 - 02:15:56 EST
On Fri, 06 Dec 2024, Greg KH wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 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@xxxxxxx>
> > '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?
You're right, I need to change that (and the example user app) over
to use this new keyword as well. Thanks for noticing.
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Lee Jones [李琼斯]