Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Sharing ioctls between char and net device | Date | Thu, 15 Oct 1998 13:01:29 +0100 (BST) |
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> device or as the network interface. I have written an user-space utility > for downloading firmware, resetting the card, querying the hardware > type etc. I would like to allow this user-space utility work both > via the ioctl on the character device and via the ioctl on the > network socket.
Is it a char device for the purposes of being a serial port or just for being able to control it ?
If its solely for control and command then the wanrouter layer has a notion of this already putting things in /proc files.
> device seems a bit ugly to me (the clean way is to use the _IOW/_IOR > macros for generating the ioctl command numbers).
Yep (_IOW/_IOR postdate the socket ioctls in Linux)
Alan
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