EXTERNAL EMAIL: Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe Martin, > Thanks for the commit message, looks much better. In the past, people > are against IOCTL, suggesting netlink, have you considered that? Not so keen on adding more ioctls. It's 2020 and all... Given the nature of the exported information, what's wrong with putting it in sysfs? -- We have some upcoming patches which uses this IOCTL interface and that cannot be supported through sysfs. Below are the patches in this patchset which requires IOCTL interface. 0007-pm80xx-IOCTL-functionality-to-get-phy-status 0008-pm80xx-IOCTL-functionality-to-get-phy-error 0009-pm80xx-IOCTL-functionality-for-GPIO 0010-pm80xx-IOCTL-functionality-for-SGPIO 0013-pm80xx-IOCTL-functionality-for-TWI-device Regards, Deepak