Re: [PATCH] 2.5.17 /dev/ports

[Martin Dalecki]

Uz.ytkownik Alexander Viro napisa?:
> 
> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
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>>So at least we know now:
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>>1. Kernel is bogous.
>>2. util-linux is bogous.
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>>IOCTL is ineed the way to go to implement such functionality...
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> 
> For kbdrate???  sysctl I might see - after all, we are talking about
> setting two numbers.  ioctl() to pass a couple of integers to the kernel?
> No, thanks.

Portable along architectures - no thanks?
Portbale along different devices and device driver implementations - no thanks?
Not to mess with hardware with preassumtptions how it works - no thanks?
Giving PC vendors a chance to get rid of silly legacy hardware - no thanks?
Abviously documented by beeing there - no thanks?
Just one case in switch statement + few bytes for copy from user and stuff - no 
thanks?
Actual hardware functionality abstraction - no thanks?
Operating system - no thanks?

*BUT* filesystems attached to /dev/ nodes - NO THANKS indeed!