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Date:	Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:05:58 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
Cc:	Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>,
	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@...ux.it>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/8] ptp: IEEE 1588 hardware clock support

On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:56:09 -0500 (CDT)
Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> > Whether you add new syscalls or do the fd passing using flags and hide
> > the ugly bits in glibc is another question.
> 
> Use device specific ioctls instead of syscalls?

Some of the ioctls are probably not device specific, the job of the OS in
part is to present a unified interface. We already have a mess of HPET
and RTC driver ioctls.

Some of it undoubtedly is device specific.

Alan
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