On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 11:45 PM Ben Hutchings
wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-12-17 at 23:17 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/Documentation/core-api/ioctl.rst
> > +``include/uapi/asm-generic/ioctl.h`` provides four macros for defining
> > +ioctl commands that follow modern convention
On Tue, 2019-12-17 at 23:17 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
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> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/core-api/ioctl.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,248 @@
> +==
> +ioctl based interfaces
> +==
> +
> +ioctl() is the most common way for applications to interface
> +with device
Documentation/process/botching-up-ioctls.rst was orignally
written as a blog post for DRM driver writers, so it it misses
some points while going into a lot of detail on others.
Try to provide a replacement that addresses typical issues
across a wider range of subsystems, and follows the style of
