tt_ioctl

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Wed Apr 9 16:09:36 UTC 2008


In message <18428.59782.318085.53492 at gromit.timing.com>, John E Hein writes:

>That said... if we do decide to _not_ hook up t_ioctl, then we should
>just remove it entirely since it's misleading that it's there but not
>hooked up.

Well, if we agree that you should use a non-tty device, we may still
miss the poster child ioctl to make the decision...

>The only thing that remains then (if we remove it) would be what to do
>with the drivers that have been broken for 3+ years since the ioctl
>pass-through was removed (digi and the usb driver or two I mentioned
>in the previous email).

Also a good question.  A check in the PR database is probably first
order of business.

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