On Tue, Sep 16 2003, Jeff Garzik wrote:
And we should deprecate them with a solution that aligns what with Linus
described in Dec 2001 on lkml: a chrdev where userland write(2)s cdbs
and taskfiles, and read(2)s the results. This is where my thinking
picked up: if we are creating a chrdev to send "packets" and receive
responses to those packets............ <insert conclusion here>
== bsg, block sg. Did you read what I wrote? :). I started implementing
this and have something that barely works. You just bind a block device
to a /dev/sg* char device and use read/write on that. Aka sg.
I don't want ioctls command submission interfaces more than you do.