Re: [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver

From: Bryan O'Sullivan
Date: Tue Jan 03 2006 - 22:34:05 EST


On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 22:26 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > Perhaps read/write on the character device file would be preferable to
> > ioctls for sending and receiving these management packets? We don't
> > implement those file methods at the moment, so it's not like we'd be
> > displacing anything.
>
> if it's just data packets.. you could implement a device that offers the
> SG_IO interface.

OK, thanks for the pointer. I'll take a look.

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