On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 08:55:30PM +1300, Paulo Miguel Almeida wrote: > > > 1: Given the driver's history and ioctl number conflit, is the backwards > > > compatibility something to be kept or not to be taken into consideration > > > as ioctl numbering rules weren't followed? > > > > Try to find out who is using these ioctls. If you can change the > > userspace tool at the same time, all is fine. If not, then there can be > > problems. > > Apologies for the delay, I had emailed the original author and I was waiting > for his reply before I could answer this. It turns out I haven't gotten > an official answer from him yet. (I do understand that he might be busy) > > I googled a fair bit of time and I'm 99% confident that there isn't such > userspace/lib tool so I guess this will have done the hard way :( If there is no tool, why was the ioctl code written at all? Something had to call it. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
