Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

Alan Cox
2001-05-16T20:42:22Z

> I don't mean to suggest that ioctls be used to deduce device types
> (except in the case of overlapping ioctl numbers, which shouldn't be
> all *that* common (I hope)). I mean to suggest that the question
> "What device type are you?" usually shouldn't even be asked!

But people need to ask it. Sometimes it really matters. It doesnt have to be
in your face as /dev/hda1 versus /dev/sda1 is but it has to be possible