Re: [PATCH] implement TIOCGSERIAL in sn_serial.c

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Wed May 19 2004 - 11:36:57 EST


On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 12:17:13PM -0400, Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > And the point of an ioctl copying two values that are compltely irrelevant
> > for userspace with your driver are? [please fill in here]
>
> What, you think userland isn't interested in the FIFO depth? Or are you
> suggesting that we fill in all the values? Pat?

I want to say this awfully smells like a quickhack. And your secrecy on
why you need this doesn't help either. So what userspace needs to know
your fifo depth?

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