From: James A Simmons <jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 09:59:50 -0400 (EDT)

Re: LibGGI3D RFC

On Fri, 21 Aug 1998, Olivier Galibert wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 21, 1998 at 03:05:00PM +0000, Torgeir Veimo wrote:
> > Creating a lot of new ioctl's is kinda bad when it comes to getting
> > acceptance linux-kernel wise. Rather use a single ioctl with commands
> > passed in a struct/union.
> 
> Even better  is to mmap a command  buffer the application can write to
> in a fifo fashion, and use ioctls for flushing and event waiting.

Yes this would be great. I agree ioctl should be used for not often used
functions like mode setting. To use mmap would require heavy modification
of fb. I hope Geerts doesn't mind.