On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 06:21:34PM +0000, Bahadir Balban wrote: > 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? It all depends on what you are trying to do. See the linux-kernel and kernel-mentors mailing list archives for the different times this question has come up, and suggested solutions on what to do. thanks, greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
