On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 12:30 -0500, Robert Love wrote: > Well, I don't share the hatred for ioctl, at least compared to another > type unsafe interface like write(). > > But John and I are open to doing whatever is the consensus. If there is > an agreed alternative, and that is the requirement for merging, I'll do > it.
Yes, if ioctl is unacceptable, then providing a write() interface is what we will do. > > I'd like to keep the user-space interface and simple, and absolutely > want to keep the single file descriptor approach. How the fd is > obtained is up for discussion. I would still like to keep the character device as the interface for getting the fd. I don't see what benefit could be gained by converting to a syscall based interface for getting the fd. -- John McCutchan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/