Re: [PATCH] 2.5.17 /dev/ports

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Wed, 22 May 2002 16:12:59 +0200


On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 09:59:41AM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:

> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
>
> > So at least we know now:
> >
> > 1. Kernel is bogous.
> > 2. util-linux is bogous.
> >
> > IOCTL is ineed the way to go to implement such functionality...
>
> For kbdrate??? sysctl I might see - after all, we are talking about
> setting two numbers. ioctl() to pass a couple of integers to the kernel?
> No, thanks.

Sysctl won't be too good an idea if you have more than one keyboard.
It needs to be device-related, hence an ioctl.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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