Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

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Philip Blundell writes:
> >Does it? At which point? To me it looks like it calls dev->do_ioctl
> >or am I missing something?
> 
> It uses SIOCSIFMAP, which (I think) winds up in dev.c here:
> 
> 	case SIOCSIFMAP:
> 			if (dev->set_config) {
> 				if (!netif_device_present(dev))
> 					return -ENODEV;
> 				return dev->set_config(dev,&ifr->ifr_map);
> 			}
> 			return -EOPNOTSUPP;

It definitely does end up there.  However, the ethtool ioctls end up
in dev->do_ioctl.
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