Hi, Le Fri, 20 Jul 2007 23:36:02 -0300, Diego Woitasen <diego@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit : > What 's the difference between ioctl, compat_ioctl and unlocked_ioctl > in struct block_device_operations? I think that te main diff between > ioctl and the others is that ioctl uses lock_kernel(), but what's the > diff between compat_ioctl and unlocked_ioctl? It's explained at http://lwn.net/Articles/119652/ (First answer on Google with "unlocked_ioctl"). Sincerly, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni - thomas.petazzoni@xxxxxxxx http://{thomas,sos,kos}.enix.org - http://www.toulibre.org http://www.{livret,agenda}dulibre.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
