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Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 14:47, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Can we please avoid adding a ton of new ioctls? ioctls inevitably >> require 64-bit compat code for certain architectures, whereas >> sysfs/procfs does not. > > For performance reasons, an ascii string based interface is not > desireable here, some of these calls should be optimized to > the point of counting cycles. sysfs does not require ASCII... Jeff - 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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