Messages in this thread | | | From | Peter Chubb <> | Date | Mon, 28 Oct 2002 09:58:00 +1100 | Subject | Re: Switching from IOCTLs to a RAMFS |
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>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:
Jeff> Like I touched on in IRC, there is room for both sysfs and per-driver Jeff> filesystems.
Jeff> I think just about everyone agrees that ioctls are a bad idea and a huge Jeff> maintenance annoyance.
I note that the P1003.26 ballot has just been announced...
Title: P1003.26: Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) -- Part 26: Device Control Application Program Interface (API) [C Language]
Scope: This work will define an application program interface to device drivers. The interface will be modeled on the traditional ioctl() function, but will have enhancements designed to address issues such as "type safety" and reentrancy.
It may be worth looking at what the draft standard says before committing to yet another interface specification.
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