Re: linux kernel without file system

Enrico Weigelt
2009-01-17T19:40:47Z

* Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:

> There are no device nodes in sysfs to talk to the device, only
> attributes, which are mostly plain small text files.

Actually, it would be really cool if all serial port operations
could be done via sysfs, so we don't need the device node
(including all its ioctl()) at all.

BTW: did I already mention that I don't like ioctl() ?

cu
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