[PATCH RFC v3 3/8] linux/ioctls: move sockios ioctls back into a separate file

[Adhemerval Zanella Netto]

On 12/05/25 19:08, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 5/8/25 10:53, Adhemerval Zanella Netto wrote:
>>
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>> On 03/05/25 22:42, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>> In the kernel, these are <linux/sockios.h>. The differences between
>>> <linux/sockios.h> the copied data in <bits/ioctls.h> are minor, but
>>> the kernel uses some #ifdefs which might not be safe in glibc.
>>>
>>> Futhermore, a handful of such ioctls have architecture-specific
>>> numbers, from <asm/sockios.h>
>>>
>>> Factor out <bits/sockios.h>, and use <asm/sockios.h> for the
>>> arch-specific ioctls.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
>>
>> Do you expect sockios.h to change overtime with newer definition
>> that might require to use the kernel headers along with glibc
>> definitions? In such cases glibc now tries to check if the kernel
>> header exists and use it instead (like statx.h).
>>
> 
> Perhaps you can look at see if the current <linux/sockios.h> is clean enough for glibc to use (or if there is something we kernel people can do to clean it up sufficiently?)
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/include/uapi/linux/sockios.h

Right, I will take a look but I had the impressions that you stumbled
on some issues with this patchset (I was not sure if are doing this
to prevent future issues).