On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> I also need it to locate all mirror groups and mirror members before
> bringing the mirroring and hotfixing engine on line. This is why. If
> there is a "cleaner" way to do this with a published API, please show
> me. Also, attached is what I am doing in 2.0/2.2 -- it works great.
It doesn't. ->ioctl() before ->open() is illegal. You may get out with
that for some drivers, but it's not guaranteed to work. For one thing,
it's an immediate race - think what will happen if rmmod will hit you
while you are in ->ioctl().
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