Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:23:50 -0800 (PST) | From | Ivan Passos <> | Subject | Re: [RFC-2] Configuring Synchronous Interfaces in Linux |
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On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > I think a new ioctl would be sensible. There is a lot to go in it.
Alan, what's the approach you'd feel more comfortable with: - One ioctl that passes a pointer to a known structure in ifr.ifr_data as its argument. - Several ioctl's, one for each parameter, that pass only the specific parameter new value as the argument.
The former is good because it relies on a _single_ ioctl. However, every time you change the ioctl structure you may lose backward compatibility.
The latter is good because new implementations / features won't affect previous working features. However, it'd create a huge list of ioctl's.
Please let me know whatcha think.
Later, Ivan
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