Re: [PATCH 2.4.18-pre7] sonypi driver update

From: Stelian Pop (stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2002 - 09:42:12 EST

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On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 09:16:19AM -0500, Dimitrie Paun wrote:

> > This new version of the driver is also capable to turn on/off
> > this laptop's bluetooth subsystem (using new ioctls, you will
> > need the updated user mode tools - spicctrl - from
> > http://www.alcove-labs.org/en/software/sonypi/).
>
> Why do we keep proliferating ioctls, instead of nice ctrl files?

Do you really want to start the ioctl vs /proc vs something_better_yet
recurrent flamewar ? :-)

Stelian.

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