Subject: Re: creating new ioctls
To: Jeremy Cooper <jeremy@broder.com>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/05/1997 17:39:11
Jeremy Cooper wrote:
> 
> I think he means that the rest of the kernel has explicitly avoided
> creating ioctls that use the 'U' character as a begining identifier.
> This leaves a clear path for drivers to use 'U' ioctls for their own
> special purposes.

How useful is this?  I mean, what kind of driver has "special" ioctls
which no one would use?  Why not just have an internal function to do
whatever is needed?  (Or am I totally missing the point here?)

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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