On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 02:32:41PM -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote: > I've been flailing away at the ioctls in our driver, with a good degree > of success. However, one in particular is proving tricky: > > > Opening the /dev/ipath special file assigns an appropriate free > > unit (chip) and port (context on a chip) to a user process. > > Think of it as similar to /dev/ptmx for ttys, except there isn't > > a devpts-like filesystem behind it. Once a process has > > opened /dev/ipath, it needs to find out which unit and port it > > has opened, so that it can access other attributes in /sys. To > > do this, we provide a GETPORT ioctl. > > I still don't see how to replace this with anything else without > performing unnatural acts.
If this is all it does, why not keep it as a device file, where open() assigns the resources, read() returns them, and close() frees them? no ioctl necessary. Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
