From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux kernel without file system
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2009 20:38:41 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090117193841.GB5003@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac3eb2510901140234m29ca516bocd0e7dd997122a7b@mail.gmail.com>
* Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> There are no device nodes in sysfs to talk to the device, only
> attributes, which are mostly plain small text files.
Actually, it would be really cool if all serial port operations
could be done via sysfs, so we don't need the device node
(including all its ioctl()) at all.
BTW: did I already mention that I don't like ioctl() ?
cu
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-17 19:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-14 8:46 Tomasz Chmielewski
2009-01-14 9:34 ` Philippe De Muyter
2009-01-14 9:52 ` Xavier Bestel
2009-01-14 10:18 ` Philippe De Muyter
2009-01-14 14:27 ` Rogan Dawes
2009-01-14 14:52 ` Philippe De Muyter
2009-01-14 14:57 ` Rogan Dawes
2009-01-14 15:24 ` Philippe De Muyter
2009-01-14 15:31 ` Rogan Dawes
2009-01-15 18:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-14 10:34 ` Kay Sievers
2009-01-14 13:49 ` Xavier Bestel
2009-01-17 19:38 ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]
2009-01-14 11:59 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-01-14 12:18 ` Philippe De Muyter
2009-01-14 14:27 ` David Newall
2009-01-14 14:49 ` Philippe De Muyter
2009-01-14 15:14 ` David Newall
2009-01-14 17:02 ` John Stoffel
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2009-01-14 8:30 Philippe De Muyter
2009-01-14 10:15 ` Alan Cox
2009-01-15 15:34 ` Enrico Weigelt
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