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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	pavel@ucw.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	torvalds@transmeta.com, ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: ioctl32 consolidation
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:40:13 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E55837D.5010607@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20030220172624.0d4c5070@mail1.qualcomm.com>

Max Krasnyansky wrote:
> Hmm. It seems to that all you need for SIOCDEVPRIVATE is ability to register
> ranges of ioctls. 
> i.e. something like this
>         int register_ioctl32_conversion_rage(uint start, uint end, handler);
> 
> net/core/dev.c
>         register_ioctl32_conversion_range(SIOCDEVPRIVATE, SIOCDEVPRIVATE + 15, siocdevprivate_ioctl);
> 
> Am I missing something here ?


Yes.  Think about the name of the ioctl :)

It is impossible for generic arch code to implement support for 
driver-private ioctls, because these naturally differ between each driver.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-21  1:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-02-20 22:31 ioctl32 consolidation Pavel Machek
2003-02-20 22:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-21 11:34   ` Pavel Machek
2003-02-21 11:58     ` Andi Kleen
2003-02-21 23:21     ` David S. Miller
2003-03-01 19:49     ` Anton Blanchard
2003-02-20 22:56 ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-02-20 23:10   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-02-21  0:36   ` David S. Miller
2003-02-21  1:31     ` Max Krasnyansky
2003-02-21  1:40       ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-02-21  3:20       ` David S. Miller
     [not found] <20030221114011$5b98@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <20030221114011$7728@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <20030221114011$25df@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-02-21 22:27     ` Arnd Bergmann
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-02-24 10:05 Martin Schwidefsky

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