Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add mkopci driver

[Richard Weinberger]

Am 21.03.2015 um 18:24 schrieb Sergej Bauer:
> Ok, I realized uselessness of merging this driver...

Please don't give up that fast!
See: http://airlied.livejournal.com/#item80112

> And you brought me to a standstill:
>> passthrough. In either case, both the ioctl interface and the procfs interface have no future
> But what will be after ioctl?

We will not drop the ioctl() system call. But having a character device with random
ioctl()s is not really a good driver design.
Today we have much more elegant ways to interact between kernel and userspace than ioctl().
For example sysfs or netlink.

Thanks,
//richard
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