On Dec 30, 6:42am, David Holland wrote:
} On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 02:50:14AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
} > In article <[email protected]>,
} > David Holland <[email protected]> wrote:
} > >
} > >It might be a good idea to do this for our own use, but probably it
} > >shouldn't be a 3rd-party interface. (Unless we decide like the look of
} > >it, I guess.)
} > >
} > >Although I'm not real thrilled about multiplying uses of proplib...
} >
} > This is why I said let's add DIOCGDISKGEOM to avoid proplib and
DIOCGDISKINFO.
}
} Because it's better to multiply ioctl entities? :-)
Before we go adding ioctl entities all over the place, we
should probably find out what other OSes are doing. We've already
added a couple from FreeBSD. The question is, what else is out
there that may satisfy our needs?
} (I suppose it in fact is...)
I'm not sure I agree. But, then I don't have the same hate-on
for proplib that others seem to have.
}-- End of excerpt from David Holland
