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On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 09:25:01 +0200 Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com> wrote: > Hello, > > after a little studing on new generic netlink interface and some > letters with Andrew Morton I decided to drop using the netlink API at > all and start using new specific syscalls. > > Looking at current LinuxPPS API and at RFC2783 I think we need the > following syscalls: > > asmlinkage long sys_time_pps_find(int cmd, int __user *source, > char __user *name, int namelen, > char __user *path, int pathlen); > asmlinkage long sys_time_pps_getparams(int source, > struct pps_params __user *params); > asmlinkage long sys_time_pps_setparams(int source, > const struct pps_params __user *params); > asmlinkage long sys_time_pps_getcap(int source, int __user *mode); > asmlinkage long sys_time_pps_fetch(int source, const int tsformat, > struct pps_info __user *info, > const struct timespec __user *timeout); Could we please also see those structs which are being passed in and out of the kernel? It's a bit hard to understand the proposed interface without that information. They don't have to be 100% accurate - just an overview. Hopefully each member of these structs has a little comment explaining what it is, too... Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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