On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 03:04:15PM +0100, Alessandro Zummo wrote: > If you don't give the media drivers a way to send ioctl-like commands > to theri chips, they will star exporting tons of function.. I agree > that you can't stop the caos in the universe, but that is like > throwing an atomic bomb in the middle of the caos... Good, exporting functions is the proper way to do things like this. Like Jean showed, a simple set of function pointers is the correct way. We want type-safe checking and explicit interfaces like this. Not wide-open, unchecked, and possibly unsafe interfaces like ioctls. That's why I, and the other kernel developers are trying to prevent any future ioctls being added. thanks, greg k-h
