Am Mittwoch, 20. November 2002 00:02 schrieb Greg Herlein:
> > > why do people hate IOCTLs ?
> >
> > Different people hate them for different reasons. There is a lot to hate
> > :)
>
> Question: the Linux Telephony API heavily uses ioctls to control
> the low level telephone behavior via the driver. Existing
> drivers for PCI/ISA/PCMCIA all use this interface.
>
> I am working on a USB driver that links to the phone subsystem
> (by registering via phonedev.o) and uses minor numbers from there
> (major number 100).
>
> Are you guys gonna freak and hate my driver because it uses
> ioctls?
Existing drivers like V4L support an API with a lot of ioctls
as well. In other words, if the API you support is based on
ioctls you have no other choice, whether you or anybody may
or may not like that.
Regards
Oliver
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