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From: Erez Zadok <ezk@...>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...>, Erez Zadok <ezk@...>, <viro@...>, <akpm@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-fsdevel@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] VFS: swap do_ioctl and vfs_ioctl names
Date: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 - 1:43 pm

In message <20071030171436.GA15922@infradead.org>, Christoph Hellwig writes:

If it doesn't hurt, and kerneldoc will present it as such, then I'd leave
the [in/out] in place.  Ioctls are the few places where you can have
variables used as both input and output; so _somehow_ we need to capture
that behavior.

Erez.
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[PATCH] 0/4 fs/ioctl.c coding style, rename vfs_ioctl/do_ioc..., Erez Zadok, (Sun Oct 28, 8:40 pm)
[PATCH 4/4] Unionfs: use vfs_ioctl, Erez Zadok, (Sun Oct 28, 8:40 pm)
[PATCH 3/4] VFS: factor out three helpers for FIBMAP/FIONBIO..., Erez Zadok, (Sun Oct 28, 8:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3/4] VFS: factor out three helpers for FIBMAP/FIO..., Christoph Hellwig, (Tue Oct 30, 5:59 am)
Re: [PATCH 3/4] VFS: factor out three helpers for FIBMAP/FIO..., Erez Zadok, (Tue Oct 30, 1:49 pm)
Re: [PATCH 3/4] VFS: factor out three helpers for FIBMAP/FIO..., Christoph Hellwig, (Tue Oct 30, 1:57 pm)
[PATCH 2/4] VFS: swap do_ioctl and vfs_ioctl names, Erez Zadok, (Sun Oct 28, 8:40 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/4] VFS: swap do_ioctl and vfs_ioctl names, Christoph Hellwig, (Tue Oct 30, 5:56 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/4] VFS: swap do_ioctl and vfs_ioctl names, Randy Dunlap, (Tue Oct 30, 11:22 am)
Re: [PATCH 2/4] VFS: swap do_ioctl and vfs_ioctl names, Christoph Hellwig, (Tue Oct 30, 1:14 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/4] VFS: swap do_ioctl and vfs_ioctl names , Erez Zadok, (Tue Oct 30, 1:43 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/4] VFS: swap do_ioctl and vfs_ioctl names, Randy Dunlap, (Tue Oct 30, 1:16 pm)
Re: [PATCH 2/4] VFS: swap do_ioctl and vfs_ioctl names, Randy Dunlap, (Sun Oct 28, 10:35 pm)
[PATCH 1/4] VFS: apply coding standards to fs/ioctl.c, Erez Zadok, (Sun Oct 28, 8:40 pm)