Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

[Alan Cox]

> Wouldn't it be better just to *try* ioctls and see which ones work and
> which ones don't?

1. We have overlaps

2. I've seen code where people play clever ioctl tricks to deduce a device
type and it ends up looking like one of those chemistry identification
charts (hopefully minus do you see smoke ?)

It should be clean and explicit

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