| | Date | Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:05:58 +0100 | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] ptp: IEEE 1588 hardware clock support |
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On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:56:09 -0500 (CDT) Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Whether you add new syscalls or do the fd passing using flags and hide > > the ugly bits in glibc is another question. > > Use device specific ioctls instead of syscalls?
Some of the ioctls are probably not device specific, the job of the OS in part is to present a unified interface. We already have a mess of HPET and RTC driver ioctls.
Some of it undoubtedly is device specific.
Alan
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