Re: [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices

[Alan Cox]

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:20:46 -0700
"Tim Anderson" <tanderson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Artem,
> 
> I see your point. Ioctls are going away after all.

I don't know where that stupid story keeps coming from. Ioctl is alive
and well and there are more not less of them. There are lots of things
you *cannot* do with sysfs, including synchronization and handling
many kinds of changes to objects that can appear and disappear. Ditto
there are problems with getting a consistent snapshot via sysfs because
you can't atomically read multiple fields.

So please stop this 'ioctls are going away' stuff, its bunkum.

Alan
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