Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:10:09 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@neotion.com>
Cc: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@linutronix.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uio: add ioctl callback
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 04:59:56PM +0100, Neil Armstrong wrote:
> Hi Hans,
> 
> We need an ioctl callback because we need to query some values only
> available when the irq handler is running.
> For example, we have 3 types of reasons why the irq is triggered and
> these bits are no more available when the irq is cleared.
> 
> The cleanest way to have this very specific information is to have a
> dirty old ioctl returning this data.

Do you also have a patch for your UIO driver that implements this
functionality?

I really don't think we want to add an ioctl callback, perhaps you could
just use a sysfs file for this?

thanks,

greg k-h
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