On Feb 8, 2008 2:28 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:They are being phased out? You mean they may not be supported in future kernel versions?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.
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.
I believe it's cleaner and a bit faster, once you don't have to do a lot of if's as you do into ioctl().
Br,
David Cohen
Thanks for all your replies.
-Mayank
