[openbeos-midi] Re: How work ioctl?

Jerome wrote:
> I'm writing the milestone 3, but I have never use ioctl function. 
> 
> that what I write:
> 
>               FILE *fichier =3D fopen("/dev/midi/ymf754/1", "rw");
>               int file =3D fileno(fichier); //result is 3 seems to be OK

I hope you mean here:

  int fd =3D fileno(fichier);

Or, much simpler:

  int fd =3D open("/dev/midi/ymf754/1", O=5FRDWR | O=5FEXCL);

> uchar *data =3D [0x90 0x39 0x64];
>       midi=5Ftimed=5Fdata DataToSend;
>               DataToSend.when =3D time;
>               DataToSend.size =3D length;
>               DataToSend.data =3D data;
>               int i =3D ioctl(fd, B=5FMIDI=5FTIMED=5FWRITE, &DataToSend, 
> sizeof(midi=5Ftimed=5Fdata));
> 
> Like this in midi=5Fdriver.h
> 
> But I have always i =3D=3D -1 that means an error appear
> 
> If you have an idea

Most probably, the timed read and write API is not supported by current 
BeOS midi drivers.
Since midi2 and his midi=5Fserver, the midi events read & write timing is 
not done anymore (if 
it was ever!!!) by /dev/midi/* drivers but by the midi=5Fserver and 
BMidiConsumers/Producers.

I'm not sure, but I guess if you try to simply write(fd, data, 3); it 
would works better.
When I worked on a usb=5Fmidi kernel driver, the midi=5Fserver seems to 
never call ioctl(B=5FMIDI=5FTIMED=5F*) on it but simply do loop on read() 
and, eventually, write() to it when an midi event raise.

You may want to ask Oliver about his YMP754 driver MIDI API support, 
too...

-Philippe

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