On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 03:03:24PM +0530, Chinmaya Mishra wrote:
> Can you provide an example how to invoke ioctl on
> device in kernel module.
>
> For example. I want to find out the IP address of
> my eth0 and I want to make SIOCSIFADDR on it from
> kernel module.
Sounds like a badly designed module. Do it from userspace.
> At user space i am doing it like this.....
>
> unsigned long *ip;
> char *iface;
> int sockfd;
> struct ifreq ifr;
> strcpy(ifr.ifr_name, iface); // interface name 'eth0'
> sockfd = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM,0);
> ioctl(sockfd, SIOCGIFADDR, (char*)&ifr);
> memcpy(ip, &(ifr.ifr_addr.sa_data[2]),4); //Copy the ip addr
> close(sockfd);
>
> How to port this in keernel space.
Not. For the same reasons why you shouldn't read files from kernel
space.
Erik
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