On 1/9/06, Arnd Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 09 January 2006 06:46, Shaun Pereira wrote:
> > Since we are interested in ioctl's from userspace I have not added the > > .compat_ioctl function pointer to struct net_device. The assumption > > being once the userspace data has reached the kernel via the socket api, > > if the socket layer protocol knows how to handle the data, it will > > prepare it for the device. > > I think we need to have it in the long run, but if you don't need it > for x25, then it's not your call to implement net_device->compat_ioctl. > I've been thinking about how to get it right before, but did not > reach a proper conclusion, since dev_ioctl is called in so many places > that would all need to be changed for this. Nowadays dev_ioctl is only called from one funcion: sock_ioctl in net/socket.c, this is after a recent changeset by hch. - Arnaldo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
