Greg KH wrote:

>On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:42:31PM -0500, Wen Xiong wrote:
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>>The following email I got from Scott Kilau in digi:
>>Scott Kilau wrote:
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>>       The DPA program is very old, and is shared among other drivers 
>>and OS's,
>>       so changing the code to read the sysfs instead of doing ioctls 
>>is not possible.
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>Hm, so we are supposed to support, for forever, custom ioctls just
>because another OS, that we care nothing about, supports it?  Hm, I just
>can't think this is a acceptable thing, sorry.  Especially due to the
>nasty 64/32 bit issues...
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>>       However, any *new* tools I write, will use sysfs, which is why 
>>we need to have both the ioctl calls and sysfs files.
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>Please, no new ioctls, end of story.
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>>       The digi.h file has extra structures and ioctls that may not be 
>>used in the driver, as that header
>>       is shared among other drivers and OS's.
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>Please remove them as they are not needed in this OS, right?  As you
>already had to change the naming, structure definitions, and format, you
>aren't sharing the file.
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Removed the all things are not needed(digi.h) in this OS.
Attached the new patch6.jasmine for your reviewing.

Thanks,
wendy