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From: greg@kroah.com (Greg KH)
To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [lm-sensors] [RFC] adding back i2c_get_clients
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 18:01:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051117163446.GA26986@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051117003330.21bfff26@inspiron>

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 03:04:15PM +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote:
>  If you don't give the media drivers a way to send ioctl-like commands
>  to theri chips, they will star exporting tons of function.. I agree
>  that you can't stop the caos in the universe, but that is like
>  throwing an atomic bomb in the middle of the caos...

Good, exporting functions is the proper way to do things like this.
Like Jean showed, a simple set of function pointers is the correct way.
We want type-safe checking and explicit interfaces like this.  Not
wide-open, unchecked, and possibly unsafe interfaces like ioctls.

That's why I, and the other kernel developers are trying to prevent any
future ioctls being added.

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-11-17 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-17  0:34 [lm-sensors] [RFC] adding back i2c_get_clients Alessandro Zummo
2005-11-17  8:56 ` Greg KH
2005-11-17 11:03 ` Alessandro Zummo
2005-11-17 11:35 ` Jean Delvare
2005-11-17 11:56 ` Alessandro Zummo
2005-11-17 13:03 ` Jean Delvare
2005-11-17 13:20 ` Alessandro Zummo
2005-11-17 14:33 ` Jean Delvare
2005-11-17 15:04 ` Alessandro Zummo
2005-11-17 18:01 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-11-17 19:23 ` Alessandro Zummo
2005-11-17 19:27 ` Greg KH

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