On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 11:53:45PM +, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Brooks Davis wrote:
> >
> >Are there any objections to this change? I plan to use it to add the
> >requested feature of interface descriptions. Here is a diff of possible
> >changes to if.h.
>
> I still think
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Brooks Davis wrote:
Are there any objections to this change? I plan to use it to add the
requested feature of interface descriptions. Here is a diff of possible
changes to if.h.
I still think that interface descriptions do not belong to kernel
space.
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Bjoern A. Zeeb
I'd like to introduce a new entry in the union in struct ifreq
containing a pointer and a size. It would be used in place of ifr_data
in new ioctls. The problem with the ifr_data (pseudo) member is that it
encourages interfaces that encode the size of the data being passed
implicitly in the kerne
