Re: Proposal: block(4)

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On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 03:51:56PM +0100, Mark Robson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Looking at the sd(4) man page, there appear to be some BLK* ioctls
> documented, but these don't really belong here, as some of them apply to all
> block devices.
> 
> Should the common functions of a block device appear on a new page, block(4)
> and refer to hd(4), sd(4), ram(4) etc as necessary?
> 
> I would create one if there was some interest.

Yes, please do.  Besides the completely generic ioctls implemented in
blkdev_ioctl it would also be good to have a manpage for the "generic
scsi" ioctls in scsi_cmd_ioctl.

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