Jeff> Like I touched on in IRC, there is room for both sysfs and per-driver
Jeff> filesystems.
Jeff> I think just about everyone agrees that ioctls are a bad idea and a huge
Jeff> maintenance annoyance.
I note that the P1003.26 ballot has just been announced...
Title: P1003.26: Information Technology -- Portable Operating
System Interface (POSIX) -- Part 26: Device Control
Application Program Interface (API) [C Language]
Scope: This work will define an application program interface to
device drivers. The interface will be modeled on the
traditional ioctl() function, but will have enhancements
designed to address issues such as "type safety" and
reentrancy.
It may be worth looking at what the draft standard says before
committing to yet another interface specification.
Peter C
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