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Fri, 02 May 2025 00:45:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from archie.me ([103.124.138.155]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d9443c01a7336-22e152326f7sm1188375ad.227.2025.05.02.00.45.55 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Fri, 02 May 2025 00:45:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by archie.me (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 32E6F420A6AB; Fri, 02 May 2025 14:45:53 +0700 (WIB) From: Bagas Sanjaya To: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Documentation Cc: Jonathan Corbet , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Frederic Barrat , Andrew Donnellan , Michael Ellerman , Alyssa Ross , Rodolfo Giometti , Bagas Sanjaya , Jason Gunthorpe , Nuno Das Neves , Eric Biggers , Jan Kara , Lukas Bulwahn , Lee Jones , Lukas Bulwahn Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: ioctl-number: Update outdated submission info Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 14:45:05 +0700 Message-ID: <20250502074504.26933-2-bagasdotme@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.49.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Developer-Signature: v=1; a=openpgp-sha256; l=2201; i=bagasdotme@gmail.com; h=from:subject; bh=vF+0hLDaUpfcc1JpysrOmDrmp3tHznnlazht2GryoYs=; b=owGbwMvMwCX2bWenZ2ig32LG02pJDBki5SJzAvyZ2fz6BTcJLl4utXeW8UQr9d+PTlr+L/Dbu NSBS0O8o5SFQYyLQVZMkWVSIl/T6V1GIhfa1zrCzGFlAhnCwMUpABN5M5eRYUv7P66bF0K/vfz4 1WxVmltmeO+V0pKV5/1zSyPK+81YjBj+Cv3g5M2Je+VQFCqhsDyy6tN9gTX7E47q7tjWWHdjxvy 57AA= X-Developer-Key: i=bagasdotme@gmail.com; a=openpgp; fpr=701B806FDCA5D3A58FFB8F7D7C276C64A5E44A1D Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Much like device numbers that used to be assigned by LANANA (see commit ebdf4040c16df5 ("Documentation: update the devices.txt documentation"), ioctl numbers list is maintained by general kernel community nowadays instead of contacting Michael directly as he's long stepped down from kernel-related activity (his last LKML message was from 2003 [1] and he's in CREDITS since the beginning of kernel's git history). Also, patch (including one to update ioctl numbers list) submission now follows process as described in Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst rather than sending patches directly to Linus as in the distant past. Update the docs to reflect that. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/200305261446.h4QEkBVv023861@duracef.shout.n= et/ [1] Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya --- Cc: Lee Jones Cc: Lukas Bulwahn Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst b/Documenta= tion/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst index 7a1409ecc238eb..83e5d2abdad694 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst @@ -28,10 +28,10 @@ or number from the table below. Because of the large n= umber of drivers, many drivers share a partial letter with other drivers. =20 If you are writing a driver for a new device and need a letter, pick an -unused block with enough room for expansion: 32 to 256 ioctl commands. -You can register the block by patching this file and submitting the -patch to Linus Torvalds. Or you can e-mail me at and -I'll register one for you. +unused block with enough room for expansion: 32 to 256 ioctl commands +should suffice. You can register the block by patching this file and +submitting the patch through :doc:`usual patch submission process +`. =20 The second argument to _IO, _IOW, _IOR, or _IOWR is a sequence number to distinguish ioctls from each other. The third argument to _IOW, base-commit: c0fe189b590c754f69e0cb87c5b5674cad535cf6 --=20 An old man doll... just what I always wanted! - Clara