Re: [PATCH] 2.5.17 /dev/ports

Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Wed, 22 May 2002 10:34:27 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 22 May 2002, Martin Dalecki wrote:

> > 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.

Well... Point about per-device taken, but strictly speaking we
do have e.g. per-interface sysctls, etc.

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