async bug

[Hidetoshi Shimokawa]

At Tue, 18 May 2004 14:33:57 -0700 (PDT),
Buzz Slye wrote:
> 
> 
>     The code for the version of 2004/03/28 does not appear to work correctly
>     for an asyncronus request of a single register.
> 
>     (i.e., try:    fwcontrol -b 0)
> 
>      R. E. Slye
>      NASA/Ames

The ioctl(2) interface of /dev/fw0.0 is not well-tested and may
have many bugs. If you need only quad/block read/write request
(without LOCK transaction), /dev/fwmem interface should be
easier to use and well-tested. The souce code of dconschat(8)
is an example of using /dev/fwmem.

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