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    SubjectRe: SIOCDEVICE ?
    On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 08:14:44PM +0100, Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
    > Francois Romieu <romieu@cogenit.fr> writes:
    >
    > > Your patch doesn't apply against 2.5.3. I did a quick update and noticed the
    > > patch is the sole user of SIOCDEVICE (with dscc4) and SIOCDEVPRIVATE.
    >
    > SIOCDEVICE, yes. That's my attempt to create an ioctl interface for
    > controlling devices. It's defined by the hdlc patch, discussed about
    > a year (?) ago here. Yes, I think I should post a note here.

    This too seems way too generic for including in the kernel.


    > A new patch which applies to 2.5.3 is in the usual place:
    > ftp://ftp.pm.waw.pl/pub/linux/hdlc/
    > This is what I want included in base kernel.

    What data is passed through the following structure?

    Untyped data has the same problems as I listed for SIOCDEVPRIVATE:

    > struct if_settings
    > {
    > unsigned int type; /* Type of physical device or protocol */
    > unsigned int data_length; /* device/protocol data length */
    > void * data; /* pointer to data, ignored if length = 0 */
    > };

    Regards,

    Jeff



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