From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751276AbVJVAgR (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:36:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751282AbVJVAgR (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:36:17 -0400 Received: from xenotime.net ([66.160.160.81]:33175 "HELO xenotime.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751276AbVJVAgQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 20:36:16 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 17:36:12 -0700 From: "Randy.Dunlap" To: James Hansen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Information on ioctl32 Message-Id: <20051021173612.06f1dadd.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <4358CF73.3020602@f0rmula.com> References: <4358CF73.3020602@f0rmula.com> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:22:27 +0100 James Hansen wrote: > Hi, > > I've been working my way through what I think is probably the seminal > work on the topic of device drivers, but it pre-dates ioctl32 and other > 32 compatibility stuff. > > (The O'Reilly linux device driver book) > http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch03.html That's LDD v2. LDD v3 is here: http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ I don't see ioctl32 here, but lwn.net also has driver-porting info at: http://lwn.net/Articles/driver-porting/ > Is there anywhere that I can find some more information on this, such as > a howto? I've been googling but have only really stumbled across some > brief info on lwn.net. --- ~Randy