netdev - Re: natsemi.c ioctl fix or mii register access

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Date:	Fri, 16 May 2008 22:57:05 +0200
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	glenn_engel@...lent.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jgarzik@...ox.com
Subject: Re: natsemi.c ioctl fix or mii register access

(please shorten your lines below 80 cols)

glenn_engel@...lent.com <glenn_engel@...lent.com> :
[...]
> The specific problems noted and fixed:
> 
> 1. The if_mii macro casts it's return to be (struct mii_ioctl_data *) but
> in reality it returns a pointer to the user space pointer (struct
> mii_ioctl_data**).   This looks to be a problem with the mii_macro to me.
> I changed this to use the ifr_data macro instead.

Which user space application did you read the source of ?

Afaiks the kernel side looks very similar to any usual network device
driver ioctl.

> 2. Since the mii_ioctl_data structure resides in user space, it must be
> copied into kernel space before access and copied back for read results.

Is not it what net/core/dev.c::dev_ioctl does.

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Ueimor
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