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SubjectRe: sysfs vs. ioctl
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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> One rule of thumb is that if you already require a character device, using ioctl
> is the right answer, but you shouldn't create a character device
> if all you want to do over it is a single ioctl operation.

thank you so much this really helped !

~pnesh

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>        Arnd
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