On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 12:14:46 +0100 Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Tuesday 21 March 2006 23:46, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > > +#define HPET_IE_ON _IO('h', 0x01) /* interrupt on */
> > > +#define HPET_IE_OFF _IO('h', 0x02) /* interrupt off */
> > > +#define HPET_INFO _IOR('h', 0x03, struct hpet_info)
> > > +#define HPET_EPI _IO('h', 0x04) /* enable periodic */
> > > +#define HPET_DPI _IO('h', 0x05) /* disable periodic */
> > > +#define HPET_IRQFREQ _IOW('h', 0x6, unsigned long) /* IRQFREQ usec */
> >
> > By the way, HPET_INFO and HPET_IRQFREQ don't work for 32 bit user space,
> > the driver needs a compat_ioctl() method to handle those.
>
> There isn't any program (except the example in the docs) that uses any
> of these ioctls, and I'm writing patches to make this device available
> through portable timer APIs like hrtimer/POSIX clocks/ALSA that are much
> easier to use besides, so I think it would be a good idea to just
> schedule these ioctls for removal.
How do you (or can you) know that there are no programs that use
that ioctl? Yes, scheduling for removal would be OK.
---
~Randy
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