Hello, Robert!
On 10:12 Sat 03 Jan , Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> the last i heard, while ioctl's aren't going away any time soon,
> they're deprecated in favour of ... uh, files under /sys? am i
How is it possible to replace ioctls by files in /sys? Should my kernel
module create a file in /sys and communicate with applications through
read/write syscalls?
> remembering that correctly? in short, if you're already working with
> an ioctl-based code base, keep doing that. but if you have the
> opportunity to design some kernel code from scratch, use the sysfs.
>
> or am i way off base here?
>
> rday
> --
Alexander
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