Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:44:35 -0700 (PDT) | From | Trent Piepho <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices |
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On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 16:34 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote: > > They certainly can, but should they? There may be some reason to prefer > > sysfs that should be self-evident - except that I'm a bit thick and seem > > to need it spelled out. Or maybe I've just become disillusioned with > > the practice of replacing crappy interfaces (ioctl here) with other > > crappy interfaces (sysfs here) and having to support both for all > > eternity. sysctl, ioctl, proc, sysfs, debugfs, netlink, ... - > > individually they all suck in their own peculiar way. But together they > > create a mess I no longer dare to name. > > The plus of sysfs I see is that I can add more files to expose more > information in sysfs, while I can not change MEMGETINFO ioctl. E.g., I > need to expose sub-page size to user-space, and I cannot do this with > MEMGETINFO.
You can do this with ioctls, if you designed them with extra space and versioning from the beginning. | |