Re: [PATCH 1/1] Add mkopci driver

[Sergej Bauer]

Thanks a lot :)

But the driver is really very insignificant.
I was wondering about sysfs before, but consumers will not be very happy to get another revision of userspace tools/library.
So this is their own problems :)

Thanks again and sorry for this uselessness dialogue :)

On Saturday 21 March 2015 20:32:16 Richard Weinberger wrote:
> 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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