Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Sun Dec 03 2000 - 06:27:47 EST


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Philip Blundell writes:
> >Does it? At which point? To me it looks like it calls dev->do_ioctl
> >or am I missing something?
>
> It uses SIOCSIFMAP, which (I think) winds up in dev.c here:
>
> case SIOCSIFMAP:
> if (dev->set_config) {
> if (!netif_device_present(dev))
> return -ENODEV;
> return dev->set_config(dev,&ifr->ifr_map);
> }
> return -EOPNOTSUPP;

It definitely does end up there. However, the ethtool ioctls end up
in dev->do_ioctl.
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