Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: ioctl call for network device | Date | Wed, 2 May 2001 12:44:12 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> but I believe that I'm oblige to use the struct ifreq and I can't > pass any other arguments because an user can't acces kernel space > so the ioctl call recopy data in the kernel space (this is what I've > understood, maybe I'm wrong ...).
You can either pass your own data inside of ifr_data[] or you can pass a pointer in ifr_data and do the copy to/from user space yourself - 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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