see? total freedom in terms of how you interpret the values, which is
why ioctl() calls are actually deprecated these days -- they're just
too unstructured, and are being phased out in terms of /proc or sysfs
entries. but there's obviously a lot of them still in the kernel.
They are being phased out? You mean they may not be supported in future kernel versions?
And is the alternative to ioctl()s, reading/writing to special /proc or /sysfs entries? Is that faster/slower than ioctl()s, or just cleaner.
Thanks for all your replies.
-Mayank
