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    SubjectRe: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

    > > I would use write except we use write to draw into the framebuffer. If I
    > > write to the framebuffer with that data the only thing that will happen is
    > > I will get pretty colors on my screen.
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    > Yes. And we also use write to send data to printer. So what? Nobody makes
    > you use the same file.

    Well creating a new device wouldn't make linus happen right now. I do
    agree ioctl calls are evil!!!! You only have X amount of them. With write
    you can have infinte amounts of different functions to perform on a
    device. I didn't design fbdev :-( If I did it would have been far
    different. I do plan on some day merging drm and fbdev into one interface. So
    I plan to change this behavior. I like to see this interface ioctl-less
    (is their such a word ???). You mmap to alter buffers. Mmap is much more
    flexiable than write for graphics buffers anyways. You use write to pass
    "data" to the driver.

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