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To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Configuring synchronous interfaces in Linux 
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Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2000 11:10:59 +0000
From: Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
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>Does it? At which point? To me it looks like it calls dev->do_ioctl
>or am I missing something?

It uses SIOCSIFMAP, which (I think) winds up in dev.c here:

	case SIOCSIFMAP:
			if (dev->set_config) {
				if (!netif_device_present(dev))
					return -ENODEV;
				return dev->set_config(dev,&ifr->ifr_map);
			}
			return -EOPNOTSUPP;
	
p.


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