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From: Ivan Korzakow <ivan.korzakow@gmail.com>
To: fawadlateef@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: best way to access device driver functions
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:18:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a598610305091505184a8aa8fd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e62d137050915010361d10139@mail.gmail.com>

> 
> Adding ioctl in driver is not a good idea especially for 2.6.x series
> kernel, rather use sysfs which is in kernel 2.6.x to support
> user/kernel interaction too with other usage .....
> 


Thanks for your answer. I started looking in sysfs and driver model.

Could you explain me why ioctl should be avoided ? Is it going to be
deprecated in future kernel ?

Regards,

Ivan

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-15 12:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-15  7:48 best way to access device driver functions Ivan Korzakow
2005-09-15  8:03 ` Fawad Lateef
2005-09-15 12:18   ` Ivan Korzakow [this message]
2005-09-15 15:39     ` Fawad Lateef
2005-09-16 12:59       ` Nix
2005-09-16 14:07         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-09-16 15:24           ` Nix
2005-09-16 16:02             ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-09-16 18:30               ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-16 19:20                 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-09-16 19:41                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-09-16 17:52         ` Alexey Dobriyan

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