Am 21.03.2015 um 18:24 schrieb Sergej Bauer: > Ok, I realized uselessness of merging this driver...
Please don't give up that fast! See: http://airlied.livejournal.com/#item80112 > And you brought me to a standstill: >> passthrough. In either case, both the ioctl interface and the procfs >> interface have no future > But what will be after ioctl? We will not drop the ioctl() system call. But having a character device with random ioctl()s is not really a good driver design. Today we have much more elegant ways to interact between kernel and userspace than ioctl(). For example sysfs or netlink. Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
