replacing ioctl()

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Hi,

As you know the ioctl() call is notoriously overused in all sorts of
driver classes. It's a single call that does so many different things.
If you were to replace it, what would you come up with as a solution?
Would it be tedious to introduce new system calls for each class, to
manipulate network devices, or character devices separately? Or maybe
new calls per ioctl() purpose, rather than per class? What would be
the best division?

Thanks,
Bahadir

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