Re: [PATCH] 2.5.17 /dev/ports

[Martin Dalecki]

Uz.ytkownik Alexander Viro napisa?:
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> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:
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>>So at least we know now:
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>>1. Kernel is bogous.
>>2. util-linux is bogous.
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>>IOCTL is ineed the way to go to implement such functionality...
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> 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.

Ahhh and just another note - we are talking about a property of a
*device* not a property of the kernel - so ioctl (read io as device)
and certainly not sysctl (read sys as kernel).

What could be sonsidered as an *serious* alternative would
be to abstract it out even further and implement it on
the tset (terminal settings) levels. But *certainly* not sysctl.