ioctl is indeed the barfbag - but its a stroke of genius by people who realised
that some things could never cleanly be expressed in the basic API concepts
and that a small clean API with a "weird()" entry point for the other stuff
is long term better than a large bloated API with no ioctl that forces
you to understand a large interface to program to a small one. Try NT
programming
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/