Messages in this thread | | | From | "Dunlap, Randy" <> | Subject | using ioctls (was: RE: Larger dev_t) | Date | Sat, 31 Mar 2001 09:53:39 -0800 |
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Hi-
Tangential question (I think). Not for an IOCTL request 8;) [as the JFS request last week].
[When] is it OK to use (new) IOCTLs vs. using procfs read/write?
And are there some alternative methods besides these two?
Thanks, ~Randy
> -----Original Message----- > From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:torvalds@transmeta.com] > ... > We should encourage people to not need major numbers. It's easy. The > driver exports a /proc entry in /proc/driver/xxx or similar . Or the > driver writer says "if you want to use this device, use devfs", and > exports the name there.
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