Re: sysfs vs. ioctl

[Neshama Parhoti]

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> One rule of thumb is that if you already require a character device, using ioctl
> is the right answer, but you shouldn't create a character device
> if all you want to do over it is a single ioctl operation.

thank you so much this really helped !

~pnesh

>
>        Arnd
>
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