Re: f_ops flag to speed up compatible ioctls in linux kernel

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 03:50:11AM -0600, filia@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi! 
> 
> Stop being arrogant.
> Can you please elaborate on how to make Linux kernel support e.g. motion 
> controllers? They do not fit *any* known to me driver interface. They have 
> several axes, they have about twenty parameters (float or integer), and 

parameters nicely fit in sysfs.

> they have several commands, a-la start, graceful stop, abrupt stop. Plus 
> obviously diagnostics - about ten another commands with absolutely 
> different parameters. And about ten motion monitoring commands. And this is 
> one example I were need to program. 

a write() interface doesn't work???
Hard to believe, you even call them commands.
fd = open("/dev/funkydevice");
write(fd, "start");

doesn't sound insane to me

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