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Are we talking about device arguments just for chrdevs and blkdevs? (ie. drivers) or for regular files too? Speaking about drivers specifically, a controlling miscdev, one per device or one per group of devices depending on your needs, is a much more clean solution for passing ioctl-type data. You are free to come up with whatever method of communication with the driver is most efficient for your needs -- without perverting open(2). Notice also a "metadata miscdev" solves the problem of passing options on open -- just pass those options to the miscdev before you open it... metadata miscdevs are a clean solution to what procfs hacks and ioctls are trying to accomplish. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "Do you have to make light of everything?!" Building 1024 | "I'm extremely serious about nailing your MandrakeSoft | step-daughter, but other than that, yes." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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