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From: WyoFlippa <wyoflippa@gmail.com>
To: kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Kernel drivers and IOCTLs
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 22:27:01 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8969dfce-a295-c351-201c-4d8a0e90ac58@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

I'm working on a driver that would verify a Linux or U-Boot image is 
secure and I need to pass parameters such as the public key, starting 
address, etc. I'd heard in talking to developers that IOCTLs are frowned 
upon. I also found this article that seems to indicate that using sysfs 
or proc is a better way to go.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8110


but then I see this article from 2013 which is more recent than the article.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/botching-up-ioctls.html


So are IOCTLs discouraged or not?

Thanks,

TW


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             reply	other threads:[~2020-01-22 18:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-22  4:27 WyoFlippa [this message]
2020-01-22 19:04 ` Kernel drivers and IOCTLs Greg KH
2020-01-23 16:49 ` Valdis Klētnieks
2020-02-05  2:57   ` WyoFlippa
2020-02-05  4:01     ` Valdis Klētnieks

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