Re: SIOCDEVICE ?

Jeff Garzik (garzik@havoc.gtf.org)
Sat, 2 Feb 2002 15:43:48 -0500

On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 03:44:24PM +0100, Francois Romieu wrote:
> Your patch doesn't apply against 2.5.3. I did a quick update and noticed the
> patch is the sole user of SIOCDEVICE (with dscc4) and SIOCDEVPRIVATE.

SIOCDEVPRIVATE is verboten in 2.5.x, it doesn't pass through ioctl
translation layers like that which exists on sparc64 and ia64; they are
untyped awful interfaces.

The correction would perhaps define a real command as needed...

Jeff

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