Fwd: Question about kernel interfaces

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2015 18:00:07 +0530, Siddhartha De said:

> In what timeframe should we migrate to "pure" sysfs and drop using
> any ioctls (if a sysfs interface exists)?

Pretty much the answer is "you don't", for the wsame reason that there's still
a lot of non-process stuff in /proc - there's no good way to clean up /pron up /
 proc or get rid of ioctl()'s without breaking userspace.

And some ioctl's you can't get rid of because they're part of official
standards (for instance, all to TIO_FOO stuff for controlling a terminal are
part of POSIX - removing them would break code that used to be portable...

Or to put it differently - ioctl() virst appeared in Unix Version 7 in 1979.
>From that, calculate how long it will take to get rid of.

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