On Mon, 27 Sep 2010 10:56:09 -0500 (CDT)
Christoph Lameter [off-list ref] wrote:

On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Alan Cox wrote:

quoted

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