On 9/15/05, Ivan Korzakow <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a number of functions that used to drive a device on an embedded
> system. Now that we are moving to Linux, these functions are part of the
> kernel space. My question is : what is the best way to access these
> from user space ?
> With a device driver, is it not a problem to implement about 15 commands through
> ioctl in addition to the usual open, close, read write ? It seems a bit
> awkward ...
>
> Any advice on this will help a lot. Thanks in advance,
>
Adding ioctl in driver is not a good idea especially for 2.6.x series
kernel, rather use sysfs which is in kernel 2.6.x to support
user/kernel interaction too with other usage .....
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Fawad Lateef
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