linux-kernel - Re: sysfs vs. ioctl

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Message-ID: <912ec82a1002232128y5ac10c0bpf38e46f6c2d20872@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:28:44 +0200
From:	Neshama Parhoti <pneshama@...il.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sysfs vs. ioctl

On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> 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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