Those are your driver specific IOCTL. Please refer to any unix driver book or site to know about IOCTL's. Thanks, Sumit ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Erickson <coldoneknight@rogers.com> Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 1:56 pm Subject: Kernel ioctl > > Howdy > > I have just started getting into learning the kernel's API and > whatnot because I wanted to learn how to write device drivers and > what > not. Somebody who I talk to alot gave me his source code for a > watchdog > driver made for linux-mips. He gave it to me as it is an extremly > simple > driver (mabey only 300 lines worth of source), so I have studied > it so I > can learn how drivers interact and what not. My major problem is > that > there is a whole much of ioctl's that I dont know about, and that > I have > never heard, that I cant find documentation for. Does anybody know > of any > good place for explanations on kernel ioctl's? Such as > WDIOC_GETSUPPORT > WDIOC_GETSTATUS > WDIOC_KEEPALIVE > > Thanks > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > >
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