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On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 10:29:29AM -0500, Bagalkote, Sreenivas wrote:
> I agree. The sysfs method would have been the most logical way of doing it.
> But then application becomes sysfs dependent. We really cannot do that.

And we cannot add more ioctl interfaces.