On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 11:58:11AM -0400, Paul Clements wrote: > One question to the general audience: do we need an ioctl for the flag > setting or would a sysfs entry be sufficient? I really would like to > move away from having so many ioctls in nbd. I've started converting > some debug and ioctl stuff to sysfs already...
Me, I don't really care either way. I suppose the NBD_DO_IT ioctl will need to remain, since handing an fd through a write in a totally unrelated file is going to be *very* ugly. Other than that, I guess moving communication between client and server to sysfs entries makes more sense. But then, I don't generally tread in your side of the syscall :-) -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ BlackBerry® DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos & much more. Register early & save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 _______________________________________________ Nbd-general mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nbd-general
