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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0808271243200.3610@t2.domain.actdsltmp>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:44:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@...escale.com>
To: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@...radead.org>
cc: Jörn Engel <joern@...fs.org>,
linux-mtd-bounces@...ts.infradead.org,
"'Bruce Leonard'" <brucle@...thlink.net>, Bruce_Leonard@...inc.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Tim Anderson <tanderson@...sta.com>,
linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
"'Andrew Morton'" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2][MTD] Add support for > 2GiB MTD devices
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 16:34 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> > They certainly can, but should they? There may be some reason to prefer
> > sysfs that should be self-evident - except that I'm a bit thick and seem
> > to need it spelled out. Or maybe I've just become disillusioned with
> > the practice of replacing crappy interfaces (ioctl here) with other
> > crappy interfaces (sysfs here) and having to support both for all
> > eternity. sysctl, ioctl, proc, sysfs, debugfs, netlink, ... -
> > individually they all suck in their own peculiar way. But together they
> > create a mess I no longer dare to name.
>
> The plus of sysfs I see is that I can add more files to expose more
> information in sysfs, while I can not change MEMGETINFO ioctl. E.g., I
> need to expose sub-page size to user-space, and I cannot do this with
> MEMGETINFO.
You can do this with ioctls, if you designed them with extra space and
versioning from the beginning.
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