On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:50:00PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
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> On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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> > 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...
Well, I implied generic ioctl as the EVMS "API" (aka collection of random
ioctls) is about that generic interface.
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