Re: RFC: ipath ioctls and their replacements

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jan 18 2006 - 21:57:06 EST


On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:17:20PM -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 16:53 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > Use the firmware subsystem for this. It uses sysfs so ioctl needed at
> > all.
>
> OK. Would I be correct in thinking that drivers/firmware/dcdbas.c is a
> reasonable model implementation to follow?

No. Pick a driver that has a backing device, like the wireless drivers
that use it. That Dell bios driver has had more looney extensions than
I can shake a stick at...

thanks,

greg k-h
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