On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:56:09 -0500 (CDT) Christoph Lameter <cl@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Whether you add new syscalls or do the fd passing using flags and hide > > the ugly bits in glibc is another question. > > Use device specific ioctls instead of syscalls? Some of the ioctls are probably not device specific, the job of the OS in part is to present a unified interface. We already have a mess of HPET and RTC driver ioctls. Some of it undoubtedly is device specific. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
