Hello, Robert! On 10:12 Sat 03 Jan , Robert P. J. Day wrote: > the last i heard, while ioctl's aren't going away any time soon, > they're deprecated in favour of ... uh, files under /sys? am i How is it possible to replace ioctls by files in /sys? Should my kernel module create a file in /sys and communicate with applications through read/write syscalls? > remembering that correctly? in short, if you're already working with > an ioctl-based code base, keep doing that. but if you have the > opportunity to design some kernel code from scratch, use the sysfs. > > or am i way off base here? > > rday > -- Alexander -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
