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| author | Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> | 2020-07-14 16:09:09 -0700 |
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| committer | Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> | 2020-08-06 01:35:05 -0400 |
| commit | cb29a02d3a9d51c749f556b3bbf6551fbc0454eb (patch) | |
| tree | 6d850bc26e733309ab10982f15aafb18219f9182 /Documentation | |
| parent | 2a12e147da38807f8aab03c92de99a70ab983a96 (diff) | |
| download | linux-cb29a02d3a9d51c749f556b3bbf6551fbc0454eb.tar.gz | |
ext4: use generic names for generic ioctls
Don't define EXT4_IOC_* aliases to ioctls that already have a generic FS_IOC_* name. These aliases are unnecessary, and they make it unclear which ioctls are ext4-specific and which are generic. Exception: leave EXT4_IOC_GETVERSION_OLD and EXT4_IOC_SETVERSION_OLD as-is for now, since renaming them to FS_IOC_GETVERSION and FS_IOC_SETVERSION would probably make them more likely to be confused with EXT4_IOC_GETVERSION and EXT4_IOC_SETVERSION which also exist. Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200714230909.56349-1-ebiggers@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst | 20 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst index 9443fcef1876..7fc6a72920c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/ext4.rst @@ -522,21 +522,21 @@ Files in /sys/fs/ext4/<devname>: Ioctls ====== -There is some Ext4 specific functionality which can be accessed by applications -through the system call interfaces. The list of all Ext4 specific ioctls are -shown in the table below. +Ext4 implements various ioctls which can be used by applications to access +ext4-specific functionality. An incomplete list of these ioctls is shown in the +table below. This list includes truly ext4-specific ioctls (``EXT4_IOC_*``) as +well as ioctls that may have been ext4-specific originally but are now supported +by some other filesystem(s) too (``FS_IOC_*``). -Table of Ext4 specific ioctls +Table of Ext4 ioctls - EXT4_IOC_GETFLAGS + FS_IOC_GETFLAGS Get additional attributes associated with inode. The ioctl argument is - an integer bitfield, with bit values described in ext4.h. This ioctl is - an alias for FS_IOC_GETFLAGS. + an integer bitfield, with bit values described in ext4.h. - EXT4_IOC_SETFLAGS + FS_IOC_SETFLAGS Set additional attributes associated with inode. The ioctl argument is - an integer bitfield, with bit values described in ext4.h. This ioctl is - an alias for FS_IOC_SETFLAGS. + an integer bitfield, with bit values described in ext4.h. EXT4_IOC_GETVERSION, EXT4_IOC_GETVERSION_OLD Get the inode i_generation number stored for each inode. The |