Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] hpet header sanitization | | Date | Wed, 22 Mar 2006 23:45:44 +0100 |
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On Wednesday 22 March 2006 12:14, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > There isn't any program (except the example in the docs) that uses any > of these ioctls, and I'm writing patches to make this device available > through portable timer APIs like hrtimer/POSIX clocks/ALSA that are much > easier to use besides, so I think it would be a good idea to just > schedule these ioctls for removal.
Ok, in that case I guess all of the header file should be wrapped inside #ifdef __KERNEL__. Until now it was not possible to include that header file in order to get the ioctl definition. It would be somewhat counterproductive to schedule the user interface for removal while at the same time making it easier to use it.
Also, I don't see any user of the ioctl function in the kernel, although it's exported. Are there any out-of-tree users?
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