Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] Shared memory uio_pci driver

[Jamie Lokier]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> ioctls encode the buffer size into the ioctl number, so in theory strace 
> doesn't need to be taught about an ioctl to show its buffer.

Unfortunately ioctl numbers don't always follow that rule :-(
But maybe that's just awful proprietary drivers that I've seen.

Anyway, strace should be taught how to read kernel headers to get
ioctl types ;-)

-- Jamie