Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:18:26 -0400 From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.ORG>, net@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Some thoughts on if_ioctl() Message-ID: <20011008111826.A887@ussenterprise.ufp.org> In-Reply-To: <200110081503.f98F3s759159@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:03:54AM -0600 References: <20011008113214.A68390@snark.rinet.ru> <200110081503.f98F3s759159@harmony.village.org>
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On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:03:54AM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: > Actaully, it should return ENOTTY rather than EINVAL. ENOTTY means > that the ioctl isn't understood. I've had to fix several drivers at > work that didn't follow this convention due to ignorance on the part > of the driver writer. I was looking for a discussion about this, and insted came across a much older discussion than I remembered. :-) Unfortunately I can't find a threaded view, so here are some links. http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/1994/07/12/0006.html http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/1994/07/12/0014.html http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/1994/07/12/0016.html http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/1994/07/12/0018.html -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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