On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 11:42:31AM -0600, Kilau, Scott wrote: > Hi Wendy, Greg, all, > > If IBM intends on our DPA management program to work for the JSM > products, the ioctls are needed.
Wendy, what is IBM's stance on this? > DPA support is a requirement for all Digi drivers, so it would > not be possible for me to remove them from my "dgnc" version > of the driver. "requirement" from whom and to who? The Linux kernel community? > For the JSM driver, its up to you whether you feel its needed or not. > > However, I would like to mention that the DIGI drivers that currently > reside in the kernel sources *do* reserve that ioctl space, > and is acknowledged by "Documentation/ioctl-number.txt": > > d' F0-FF linux/digi1.h > > I understand that the list is not a reservation list, > but a current list of potential ioctl conflicts... It's not a reservation issue, it's the fact that we don't want to allow new ioctls, and if we do, they had better work properly (your implementation does not.) thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
