XChangeDeviceControl/XGetDeviceControl ?

Gabor Gombas gombasg at sztaki.hu
Tue Apr 18 02:02:25 PDT 2006


On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 12:57:43AM +0300, Daniel Stone wrote:

> And ioctls are now more-or-less deprecated in favour of sysfs.  Go
> figure, I guess ...

Not exactly "in favour of sysfs" but more like "in favour of more
appropriate methods". Those methods include simple read/write protocol
on device nodes, netlink, configfs, relayfs, sysfs etc. depending on
what do you need/what do you want to use it for.

Gabor

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