From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ivan.korzakow@gmail.com,
fawadlateef@gmail.com
Subject: Re: best way to access device driver functions
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:07:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1126879660.3103.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mzmduq1h.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix>
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> New *system calls* are generally avoided (especially if they might be
> useful to non-privileged code) because they come with a *very* high
> backward compatibility burden
ioctls come with the same burden though.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-16 14:07 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
2005-09-15 15:39 ` Fawad Lateef
2005-09-16 12:59 ` Nix
2005-09-16 14:07 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
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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