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From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] problems with ppp/pppd: put_user/copy_to_user
Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 20:18:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-105590693005661@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-ia64-105590693005655@msgid-missing>

David Mosberger (davidm@hpl.hp.com) said: 
>   Bill> However, if we replace the calls to put_user for PPPIOCGCHAN &
>   Bill> PPPIOCGFLAGS ioctls with copy_to_user, it works
>   Bill> fine. Shouldn't this not make any difference?
> 
> It should not make a difference.  Is there an easy test case that
> reproduces the problem?

Hm, not sure if there's something simpler than having two machines talk
ppp over a serial cable. I'll poke around.

Bill


      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-05-23 20:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-05-23 18:56 [Linux-ia64] problems with ppp/pppd: put_user/copy_to_user Bill Nottingham
2001-05-23 20:06 ` Luck, Tony
2001-05-23 20:07 ` Bill Nottingham
2001-05-23 20:15 ` David Mosberger
2001-05-23 20:18 ` Bill Nottingham [this message]

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