linux-kernel - Re: Gettin own IP address thorugh ioctl in kernel space.

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Date:	Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:23:51 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	Erik Mouw <erik@...ddisk-recovery.com>,
	chinmaya@...omedia.soft.net,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Gettin own IP address thorugh ioctl in kernel space.

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:07:47 +0200, Jan Engelhardt said:
> >> 
> >> How to port this in keernel space.
> >
> >Not. For the same reasons why you shouldn't read files from kernel
> >space.
> >
> About reading files, tell that
>  - ndiswrapper
>  - ralink drivers from RaLinkTech and Serialmonkey

Out-of-tree code involving binary blobs shouldn't be held up as examples of
how we do things in-tree....

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