From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Wen Xiong <wendyx@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ patch 6/7] drivers/serial/jsm: new serial device driver
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 22:42:11 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050308064211.GE17022@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <422CDA58.5000506@us.ltcfwd.linux.ibm.com>
On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 05:48:56PM -0500, Wen Xiong wrote:
> Since some tools in Digi company need these new ioctls to access device
> driver. I still keep these new ioctls.
What tools? What are they used for? Why do they need them? Why can't
they just use the sysfs files?
As the driver isn't in the kernel tree, there should not be any users
expecting these ioctls to be around, right?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-08 7:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-27 23:40 [ patch 6/7] drivers/serial/jsm: new serial device driver Wen Xiong
2005-02-28 0:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-02-28 3:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-02-28 0:56 ` Rik van Riel
2005-02-28 1:45 ` Nish Aravamudan
2005-02-28 6:55 ` Greg KH
2005-03-04 21:08 ` Wen Xiong
2005-03-05 6:44 ` Greg KH
2005-03-07 22:48 ` Wen Xiong
2005-03-08 6:42 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-03-08 18:42 ` Wen Xiong
2005-03-09 6:04 ` Greg KH
2005-03-09 15:50 ` Wen Xiong
2005-03-09 16:31 ` Greg KH
2005-03-09 17:31 ` Wen Xiong
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-09 17:42 Kilau, Scott
2005-03-09 19:12 ` Greg KH
2005-03-09 22:11 ` Wen Xiong
2005-03-09 19:35 Kilau, Scott
2005-03-09 19:51 ` Greg KH
2005-03-09 20:33 ` Wen Xiong
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