Hello Heinrich,
On Sun, 9 Nov 2014 at 16:52, Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Hello Michael,
>
> the current ioctl_list.2 man-page descripton starts
> "This is Ioctl List 1.3.27, a list of ioctl calls in Linux/i386 kernel
> 1.3.27."
> So the man-page represents the state of Sep 14th, 1995.
> It enumerates only 421 out of over 1200 calls.
>
> The list contains hex values of different constants. I just wonder for
> which architecture (alpha, i386, mips, or sparc at that time). No
> information is supplied.
>
> Current values depend on the architecture, e.g.
>
> On amd64
> 0x82307201 VFAT_IOCTL_READDIR_BOTH
> 0x82307202 VFAT_IOCTL_READDIR_SHORT
> 0x80047210 FAT_IOCTL_GET_ATTRIBUTES
> 0x40047211 FAT_IOCTL_SET_ATTRIBUTES
> 0x80047213 FAT_IOCTL_GET_VOLUME_ID
>
> On mips
> 0x42187201 VFAT_IOCTL_READDIR_BOTH
> 0x42187202 VFAT_IOCTL_READDIR_SHORT
> 0x40047210 FAT_IOCTL_GET_ATTRIBUTES
> 0x80047211 FAT_IOCTL_SET_ATTRIBUTES
> 0x40047213 FAT_IOCTL_GET_VOLUME_ID
>
> Hence hex values should be removed.
As you suggest, I've removed the hex values from the lists.
Thanks,
Michael
> I further suggest to remove all documentation of structure details.
>
> The following command can be used to create the raw data for a new list
>
> grep -GHrn -B3 -A3 --regexp="\s_IO[R|W|RW]\?[_BAD]\?\s*(" \
> include/uapi | \
> sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\\\s*\n[^-]*-[^-]*-/ /g' | \
> sort | \
> grep --regexp="\s_IO[R|W|RW]\?[BAD]\?\s*(" | grep -n ''
>
> Best regards
>
> Heinrich Schuchardt
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