Re: [PATCH 0/2] Input: uinput - fix ioctl numbers in uapi/uinput.h

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Hi,

On Jan 11 2015 or thereabouts, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> Hi Gabriel,
> 
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 01:43:34PM +0100, Gabriel Laskar wrote:
> > Ioctls numbers for UI_GET_SYSNAME and UI_GET_VERSION are incorrectly numbered,
> > since nr number is 8bit encoded, 300 and 301 will effectively get 44 and 45.
> > these two patches fixes this
> > 
> 
> Nice catch, thank you! I folded the patches together (as they are fixing
> essentially the same thing) , changed hex to dec (because the rest of
> ioctls in uinput use decimal) and applied.
> 
> I wonder if we need to put a BUILD_BUG_ON in one if _IO* defines to
> catch such errors early on.
> 

As others said, nice catch, thanks a lot. I feel very embarrassed about
this :(

Cheers,
Benjamin
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