Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 5 Dec 2000 17:55:17 -0800 | From | Stuart Lynne <> | Subject | Re: [RFC-2] Configuring Synchronous Interfaces in Linux |
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On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 05:34:50PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Ditto, we have an adsl driver that we setup by overloading various otherwise > > > unused options in ifconfig (mem_start, io_addr etc) to do this. Cheaper and > > > faster than writing yet another ioctl using device configuration agent, but > > > distasteful non the less. > > Generic is not always good , thats why we have SIOCDEVPRIVATE. One thing Im > > pondering is if we should make the hardware config ioctl take a hardware type > > ident with each struct. That would help make all the ethernet agree, all the > > wan agree, all the ADSL agree without making a nasty mess. > > Id be up for that, but its hard to standardize on IOCTLs without people > publishing their drivers, as long as people hide their code we dont know > what everyone else is doing config interface wise... > > Lets see the code, people...
We are trying to get permission from the customer to release it.
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