A: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_post Q: Were do I find info about this thing called top-posting? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/on_top On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 01:18:05PM +0200, Eli Billauer wrote: > Hello, Greg. > > I'm afraid we're not on the same page. As mentioned in the original patch > description, XillyUSB and the existing Xillybus variant presents a nearly > identical API. User space programs see no difference when using one or the > other, except for different device file names. My point is, do NOT have different file names. Userspace should not care about the backing transport layer of a device. > In that sense, it's exactly > like tty devices. But unlike ttys, there are no ioctls or any other special > API functions to export. Xillybus' API consists only of the basic file > operations, which behave like you'd expect from a pipe, more or less. Great, then do like the tty devices do and present the same device name to userspace. thanks, greg k-h
