On Feb 11, 2008 10:43 PM, Mayank Kaushik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Feb 8, 2008 2:28 AM, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > see? total freedom in terms of how you interpret the values, which is > > why ioctl() calls are actually deprecated these days -- they're just > > too unstructured, and are being phased out in terms of /proc or sysfs > > entries. but there's obviously a lot of them still in the kernel. > > > > They are being phased out? You mean they may not be supported in future > kernel versions? > And is the alternative to ioctl()s, reading/writing to special /proc or > /sysfs entries? Is that faster/slower than ioctl()s, or just cleaner.
I believe it's cleaner and a bit faster, once you don't have to do a lot of if's as you do into ioctl(). Br, David Cohen > > > Thanks for all your replies. > -Mayank >
