From: Neshama Parhoti <pneshama@gmail.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sysfs vs. ioctl
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:28:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <912ec82a1002232128y5ac10c0bpf38e46f6c2d20872@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201002231758.17454.arnd@arndb.de>
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> One rule of thumb is that if you already require a character device, using ioctl
> is the right answer, but you shouldn't create a character device
> if all you want to do over it is a single ioctl operation.
thank you so much this really helped !
~pnesh
>
> Arnd
>
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2010-02-23 16:47 Neshama Parhoti
2010-02-23 16:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-02-24 5:28 ` Neshama Parhoti [this message]
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