Hi! > >>Can we please avoid adding a ton of new ioctls? > >>ioctls inevitably require 64-bit compat code for > >>certain architectures, whereas sysfs/procfs does not. > > > >For performance reasons, an ascii string based > >interface is not > >desireable here, some of these calls should be > >optimized to > >the point of counting cycles. > > sysfs does not require ASCII...
Yep, but at that point you have 32 vs. 64bit nightmare back... and stronger, because sysfs does not have compat handling. -- Thanks for all the (sleeping) penguins. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
