From: "Sonasath, Moiz" <m-sonasath@xxxxxx> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 17:23:36 -0500 > There seems to be a bug in the ioctl implementation in /kernel/net/core/dev.c > > dev_ifsioc_locked() > case SIOCGIFMAP: > ifr->ifr_map.irq = dev->irq; // ?? type mismatch > > Here > ifr->ifr_map.irq) is of type unsigned char > dev-irq is of type unsigned int > > So ifconfig reports a wrong irq number when the dev->irq number is > 255. This is a known and unavoidable limitation of this interface. It's only real use is to control ISA style IRQs which are < 255. > I am confused to see the same typedefs in file: net/if.h > Not sure how to make changes for the user side net/if.h file? > > Signed-off-by: Moiz Sonasath <m-sonasath@xxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Vikram Pandita <vikram.pandita@xxxxxx> You can't make these kinds of changes, every userland binary out there using this structure would break. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
