Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fix the TIOCGICOUNT problem for good

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 06:21:06PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Remembering to clear fields is something driver authors are simply never
> going to remember to get right every new driver. Instead take the problem
> away from them and give them a simple interface to do the job.

Btw, I wonder if all the standard tty ioctls should get similar
treatment.  That way we have a nice enough skeleton of what needs to be
implemented in every tty driver instead of passing down the raw ioctl
method.

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