On Friday, November 30, 2012 12:44:06 PM Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:09:40PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Sure, that's better.  You also got lucky, '7' happens to be unused right
> now.

Excellent. You said you want the next drop after -rc1, right?

-- 
Dmitry

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