On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 01:45:21PM +0000, Dalessandro, Dennis wrote: > On Wed, 2016-08-17 at 08:19 +0300, Leon Romanovsky wrote: > > > > > I'm not opposed to trying to unify things, however this seems to be > > > more than plop down the hfi1 stuff from here and put it over there. > > > It > > > is certainly not simplifying anything. > > > > It is "dark side" of UAPI - inability to change legacy declarations. > > This is why I didn't remove anything except _NUM() macro. > > > > The simplification comes from definition of one place for > > declaration of IOCTLs numbers and exporting it to users. It gives > > visibility for user space authors too. > > How often does a user need the IOCTL numbers for MAD and PSM and > whatever else we come up with at the same time? Why would they care > about the other IOCTL numbers? We will need new IOCTLs numbers for ABI and better if they be different from already defined. > > I don't really see a problem with keeping them separate, but I'm not > really opposed to collapsing into one place either. Thanks > > -Denny
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