From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264428AbUESQeh (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 12:34:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264429AbUESQeh (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 12:34:37 -0400 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([213.86.99.234]:57870 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264428AbUESQeg (ORCPT ); Wed, 19 May 2004 12:34:36 -0400 Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 17:34:32 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Jesse Barnes Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pfg@sgi.com, Erik Jacobson Subject: Re: [PATCH] implement TIOCGSERIAL in sn_serial.c Message-ID: <20040519173432.A28656@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Jesse Barnes , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pfg@sgi.com, Erik Jacobson References: <200405191109.51751.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> <200405191150.08967.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> <20040519165618.A28238@infradead.org> <200405191217.13635.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200405191217.13635.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>; from jbarnes@engr.sgi.com on Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:17:13PM -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:17:13PM -0400, Jesse Barnes wrote: > > And the point of an ioctl copying two values that are compltely irrelevant > > for userspace with your driver are? [please fill in here] > > What, you think userland isn't interested in the FIFO depth? Or are you > suggesting that we fill in all the values? Pat? I want to say this awfully smells like a quickhack. And your secrecy on why you need this doesn't help either. So what userspace needs to know your fifo depth?