Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] hpet header sanitization | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Thu, 23 Mar 2006 09:13:40 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 23:45 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wednesday 22 March 2006 12:14, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > > There isn't any program (except the example in the docs) that uses any > > of these ioctls, and I'm writing patches to make this device available > > through portable timer APIs like hrtimer/POSIX clocks/ALSA that are much > > easier to use besides, so I think it would be a good idea to just > > schedule these ioctls for removal. > > Ok, in that case I guess all of the header file should be wrapped inside > #ifdef __KERNEL__. Until now it was not possible to include that header > file in order to get the ioctl definition. It would be somewhat > counterproductive to schedule the user interface for removal while at > the same time making it easier to use it. > > Also, I don't see any user of the ioctl function in the kernel, although > it's exported. Are there any out-of-tree users?
hmm there used to be (in s390 iirc ;) but now it's a good opportunity for Adrian to do a cleanup patch for it
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