Re: SIOCDEVICE ?

[Jeff Garzik <garzik@havoc.gtf.org>]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 08:14:44PM +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Francois Romieu <romieu@cogenit.fr> writes:
> 
> > Your patch doesn't apply against 2.5.3. I did a quick update and noticed the
> > patch is the sole user of SIOCDEVICE (with dscc4) and SIOCDEVPRIVATE.
> 
> SIOCDEVICE, yes. That's my attempt to create an ioctl interface for
> controlling devices. It's defined by the hdlc patch, discussed about
> a year (?) ago here. Yes, I think I should post a note here.

This too seems way too generic for including in the kernel.


> A new patch which applies to 2.5.3 is in the usual place:
> ftp://ftp.pm.waw.pl/pub/linux/hdlc/
> This is what I want included in base kernel.

What data is passed through the following structure?

Untyped data has the same problems as I listed for SIOCDEVPRIVATE:

> struct if_settings
> {
>       unsigned int type;      /* Type of physical device or protocol */
>       unsigned int data_length; /* device/protocol data length */
>       void * data;            /* pointer to data, ignored if length = 0 */
> };

Regards,

	Jeff