Re: Ioctl

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Mon Jan 31 2011 - 14:52:00 EST


On Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:39:13 -0800 Brian D. McGrew wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm very new at working with the kernel and device drivers and I'm trying to
> bring ours drivers up from a 2.6.16 kernel to 2.6.37. I'm noticing that
> ioctl() doesn't seem to be raound anymore, or at least I can't find it.
>
> There is tons of stuff in my code that I don't yet understand which requires
> the ioctl function. What is the best way for me to either get the ioctl
> working in 2.6.37, or the quickest way to work around it???

ioctl() is still around.

fs/ioctl.c:
SYSCALL_DEFINE3(ioctl, unsigned int, fd, unsigned int, cmd, unsigned long, arg)
{

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