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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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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