On Thursday 21 March 2002 00:22, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:17:25PM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > > What ones? I can't think of any right off the top of my head.
> >
> > ioctls for getting complex information.
>
> read() works fine for getting complex information too :)
One kind of complex information. V4L with read instead of ioctl
would be horrible.
> > This does look like yet another filesystem.
>
> It is another filesystem. If you look in /proc/filesystems, you will
> see lots of them. They are multiplying!
Without any planing or forethought. It's procfs all over again.
> > We need some centralised point for doing
> > device configuration.
>
> That's what userspace tools are for :)
Nope. There's no sanity found if you need half a dozen
filesystem with strange failure modes if one happens to be mounted
on a different place or with strange permissions.
We need unification. There's nothing hotplug specific
about node<->device correspondence. It belongs
in driverfs. We need to get rid of special cases.
Regards
Oliver
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