> Perhaps read/write on the character device file would be preferable to
> ioctls for sending and receiving these management packets? We don't
> implement those file methods at the moment, so it's not like we'd be
> displacing anything.
if it's just data packets.. you could implement a device that offers the
SG_IO interface. Yes it's ioctls, but it's a preexisting ABI so I
suspect that's not too big a deal (and maybe you can even leverage a lot
of existing code for this)
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
