On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> I don't think that basing kernel internal interfaces on ioctl is
> a smart idea. Just add another function pionter to your operations
> vector for every operation you want supported on volumes.
s/every/& generic/. Other than that, seconded. BTW, one of the pending
changes is taking the last more or less generic ioctl (HDIO_GETGEO) into
a separate method...
->ioctl() is for driver-specific crud; stuff that won't be used by
any generic application. "Make a cuckoo jump out of drive and sing
'1000 bottles of beer'" is a valid ioctl. "Get drive size" isn't.
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