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Subject: Re: ioctl conflicts
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
   Date: 30 Aug 2001 08:16:22 GMT

   Manik Raina wrote:
   >  ./include/linux/videodev.h:#define VIDIOCGCAP          
   >  _IOR('v',1,struct video_capability)
   >  ./include/linux/ext2_fs.h:#define  EXT2_IOC_GETVERSION  _IOR('v',1,
   >  long)   
   
   The size of the argument has a different size, so they end up with
   different magic numbers because of that.
   
What if "struct video_capability" were "int[2]"?  Then the values
would be identical.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com