On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:08:48 +0200, Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 18. April 2007 17:54 schrieb Mike Panetta: > > Just out of curiosity, why do we want to get rid of ioctl calls? > For a number of reasons. > - we got burned on 32/64 issues That's actually a reason to support ioctls. You get burned much worse on 32/64 when doing read(2), because no translation or adaptation is possible. > - no easy support for non blocking IO > - no easy support for AIO That's the main thing (unless we play with mmap+ioctl for AIO imple- mentation like V4L did). -- Pete ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
