[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/2] Ocfs2: Add stuffs associated with ocfs2_info_request ioctls to ioctl.h

Joel Becker Joel.Becker at oracle.com
Thu Dec 31 12:10:59 PST 2009


On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 04:18:43PM +0800, Tristan Ye wrote:
> Currently we were adding ioctl cmds/structures for ocfs2 into ocfs2_fs.h
> which was used for define ocfs2 on-disk layout. That sounds a little bit
> confusing, and it can be quickly polluted espcially when growing the
> ocfs2_info_request ioctls afterwards. The appropriate place to kept in-memory
> ioctl structures is ioctl.h I guess.

	We want a separate ocfs2_ioctl.h.  The definitions of the ioctl
and its structures are things a userspace program would want to use.
ioctl.h, on the other hand, is an internal header for libocfs2.

Joel

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