Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:01:32 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 09:39 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:20:46 -0700 > "Tim Anderson" <tanderson@mvista.com> wrote: > > > Artem, > > > > I see your point. Ioctls are going away after all. > > I don't know where that stupid story keeps coming from. Ioctl is alive > and well and there are more not less of them. There are lots of things > you *cannot* do with sysfs, including synchronization and handling > many kinds of changes to objects that can appear and disappear. Ditto > there are problems with getting a consistent snapshot via sysfs because > you can't atomically read multiple fields. > > So please stop this 'ioctls are going away' stuff, its bunkum.
True, and we'll definitely need a new MEMERASE64 ioctl. But for the _informational_ parts, those can happily be done through sysfs.
-- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
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