> I'l looking at defining about a dozen ioctl calls for a local device driver.
> When looking at the _IO, _IO, _IOW, _IOR, and _IOWR macros, I'm interested if
> there are any "reserved" or "local" values for the first parameter?
Not really, as such.
> In short, I'd hate to use a seemly unused value, just to suddenly be in
> conflict with a major set of ioctls (particularly terminal, as this is the
> type of driver it will be). Also, would it be wise to reuse an existing value?
If you want to add private ioctls to a given subsystem, either pick an
arbitrarily high function number, or another letter that's not commonly
associated with that subsystem. Eg. I would probably pick 'z' if I
were going to add a local ioctl to the tty subsystem.
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