From: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
To: ravi kerur <rkerur@gmail.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: Q on ioctl support in netfront/netback
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:40:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B791671.4050902@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dfc283f41002141823o7ca47994g7530e5cfc6ef7ad6@mail.gmail.com>
ravi kerur wrote:
>
> Our network driver support ioctl calls from applications for register
> reads/writes. I am wondering can ioctl calls be supported from domU to
> dom0? i.e call flow will be
>
> application invokes ioctl ---> netfront ioctl ----->via xenbus ------>
> netback ioctl ------> to actual driver in dom0
>
> with the return path in similar fashion.
>
I'm wondering precisely what register in netback you wish to access?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-15 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-15 2:23 Q on ioctl support in netfront/netback ravi kerur
2010-02-15 9:40 ` Paul Durrant [this message]
2010-02-15 15:54 ` ravi kerur
2010-02-16 18:14 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-02-17 16:19 ` ravi kerur
2010-02-17 16:27 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2010-02-17 16:40 ` Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
2010-02-17 20:00 ` ravi kerur
2010-02-17 3:26 ` Daniel Stodden
2010-02-17 15:44 ` ravi kerur
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