On (02/27/15 14:51), Andrew Morton wrote:
> hoo boy. Creating a /dev node and doing ioctls on it is really old
> school. So old school that I've forgotten why we don't do it any more.
>
> Hopefully Alan can recall the thinking?
oh. I thought this is how loop control works, and ioctl there doesn't look
insane to me.
any quick hint how do you do this in a modern world so I'll redo the patch set?
-ss
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