Subject: Re: if_ioctl
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/20/2001 20:57:50
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 11:34:45PM -0500, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

 > there certainly are certain interface driver ioctls which assume
 > process context -- look at the implementation of ifmedia_ioctl() -- it
 > uses copyin/copyout and malloc with WAITOK with impunity.

Yah, and actually, we're going to have to scour the tree for these...
That's going to be Really Interesting when ifnets have real locks
on them.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>