Re: [Madwifi-users] adding an new ioctl

[Robin W. <dn...@gm...>]

On 30/01/2008, Pavel Roskin <pr...@gn...> wrote:
>
>  On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 22:09 +0000, Robin Wood wrote:
>  > On 30/01/2008, Pavel Roskin <pr...@gn...> wrote:
>  > > On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 19:36 +0000, Robin Wood wrote:
>
> There are some free odd numbers.  You just need to ensure that ordinary
>  users cannot do anything bad (like break connection or steal the keys),
>  since the odd numbers are available to the users by default.  See e.g.
>  ieee80211_ioctl_giwencodeext():
>
>       if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
>            return -EPERM;
>
Can you  point me at any good documentation for this? When I started I
was just looking at copying something that was already implemented but
I'm now getting interested in how it all really works.

Robin