Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [RFC-2] Configuring Synchronous Interfaces in Linux | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | 07 Dec 2000 01:14:01 +0100 |
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> 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.
What's wrong with returning -Exxx error code when the user requests unsupported interface or function?
I think we should just #define possible values in standard include file and make ifconfig/ip use it. We can add additional media types as required.
2.5 task IMHO.
I think we need few ioctl calls: get + set media (int argument), get + set speed (probably two - RX and TX), etc. In my 2.4 HDLC stuff - to be published :-( - there something like that (in private ioctl range, of course). -- Krzysztof Halasa Network Administrator - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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