Re: ioctl

Frederic <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.ipw2100.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
well, I know that book.

I have already read the chap. 6 which deals with io control.
Nevertheless, my question remains!

I don't understand exactly how it's implemented in the ipw2200 driver.
Indeed, it's not the same!

Regards,

Fred.


Henrik Brix Andersen wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 04:19:11PM +0200, Frederic wrote:
>> I'm new in this mailing list and I would like to be involved in driver
>> development of ipw2200.
> 
> Cool - welcome aboard :)
> 
>> But first, I would like to dig into the driver. Therefore, I have a
>> question:
>> I would like to call a method from a user-space process. I guess I
>> should use ioctl. However, I'm a little bit stuck.
>>
>> I have define two new methods: __le16 get_stats() and set_stats(__le16
>> s) and these two should be called from the user-space. Now my question:
>> how to add the correponding ioctl and how to call them and pass them
>> args from the user-space?
> 
> May I recommend the (free of charge) book "Linux Device Drivers, 3rd
> edition"? It's available from http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/ and in your
> local bookstore (non-free, though).
> 
> Regards,
> Brix
> 
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