On Jan 13, 2008 5:43 PM, Bernhard Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi vda, all, > > ISTR that sysfs was the long-term plan of the kernel folks and that they > mean to completely(?) drop ioctl support.
Don't think that they are going to drop ALL ioctls, that's just too much pain for no real benefit. > In what timeframe should we migrate to "pure" sysfs and drop using > any ioctls (if a sysfs interface exists)? After a few years, I guess. Some people tend to run really old kernels. > PS: Implementing a FEATURE_BRCTL_FANCY with pure ioctl currently since i > suppose that many of our targets either don't have sysfs yet or may not > use it at all. brctl and bridge-utils' userspace<->kernel interface seems to heavily lean towards sysfs. For example, on 32/64-bit AMD64 kernel with 32-bit userspace many bridge ioctls simply don't work (compat layer is not implemented, and is not planned to be). In this particular case (brctl), it seems that we have to prefer to use sysfs. -- vda _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/busybox
