From: Fawad Lateef <fawadlateef@gmail.com>
To: ivan.korzakow@gmail.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: best way to access device driver functions
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:03:10 +0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1e62d137050915010361d10139@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a5986103050915004846d05841@mail.gmail.com>
On 9/15/05, Ivan Korzakow <ivan.korzakow@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a number of functions that used to drive a device on an embedded
> system. Now that we are moving to Linux, these functions are part of the
> kernel space. My question is : what is the best way to access these
> from user space ?
> With a device driver, is it not a problem to implement about 15 commands through
> ioctl in addition to the usual open, close, read write ? It seems a bit
> awkward ...
>
> Any advice on this will help a lot. Thanks in advance,
>
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 .....
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Fawad Lateef
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-15 8:03 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 [this message]
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
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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