Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [RFC-2] Configuring Synchronous Interfaces in Linux | Date | Tue, 5 Dec 2000 21:56:08 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Alan, what's the approach you'd feel more comfortable with: > - One ioctl that passes a pointer to a known structure in ifr.ifr_data as > its argument. > - Several ioctl's, one for each parameter, that pass only the specific > parameter new value as the argument. > > The former is good because it relies on a _single_ ioctl. However, every > time you change the ioctl structure you may lose backward compatibility.
One ioctl with a set of subcommands seems to be quite common
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