Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 15:25:49 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: Driver help Message-ID: <199612071425.PAA19846@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199612030057.LAA06521@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Dec 3, 96 11:27:06 am"
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As Michael Smith wrote: > IMHO, using copyin/out in drivers is bogus in most cases. It's necessary if you've got a weird third argument to an ioctl, something where you can't encode the actual argument size in the ioctl itself. But i agree that it is rarely needed in BSD. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)home | help
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