From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Pjotr Kourzanov <peter.kourzanov@xs4all.nl>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ioctl assignment strategy?
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 21:06:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1103594808.8297.26.camel@krustophenia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1103589129.32548.10.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 00:32 +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> The "ioctls are evil" blind hate department really annoy me however
> because like all extreme views the truth very rarely fits their model
Another objection was that all ioctls take the BKL. I think you did not
hear this one raised as much because it reflected a deficiency in the
system. But now at least 2 different solutions have been posted for
BKL-less ioctls so that objection is no longer valid.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-12-21 2:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-14 23:31 ioctl assignment strategy? Al Hooton
2004-12-15 0:46 ` Greg KH
2004-12-15 14:53 ` Chris Friesen
2004-12-17 23:48 ` Greg KH
2004-12-20 17:37 ` Chris Friesen
2004-12-20 22:48 ` Pjotr Kourzanov
2004-12-21 0:32 ` Alan Cox
2004-12-21 2:06 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2004-12-21 12:51 ` Olivier Galibert
2004-12-21 17:24 ` Greg KH
2004-12-22 17:16 ` Al Hooton
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