From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bos@pathscale.com
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, rdreier@cisco.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
greg@kroah.com, openib-general@openib.org
Subject: Re: RFC: ipath ioctls and their replacements
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:48:39 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060118.164839.74431051.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1137631411.4757.218.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com>
From: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:43:31 -0800
> Obviously, we'd prefer the number to be zero, but I don't think we
> can do that without submitting a driver that isn't very useful.
You can use an interface such a netlink for device configuration.
It can do better type checking, can be used by generic tools, and
some day soon will be transferable over the wire so that one can
perform remote configuration changes.
Let's let ioctl()'s go the way of the cave man. It's one of the
worst designed interfaces undef UNIX :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-19 0:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-19 0:43 Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-19 0:48 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2006-01-19 1:14 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-19 1:17 ` David S. Miller
2006-01-19 5:17 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-19 5:43 ` Greg KH
2006-01-19 0:53 ` Greg KH
2006-01-19 1:17 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-19 2:54 ` Greg KH
2006-01-19 2:57 ` Greg KH
2006-01-19 3:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-19 4:03 ` Greg KH
2006-01-19 5:02 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-19 5:39 ` Greg KH
2006-01-19 5:53 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-19 22:57 ` Greg KH
2006-01-19 23:44 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-20 0:02 ` [openib-general] " Sean Hefty
2006-01-19 8:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-19 8:39 ` David S. Miller
2006-02-24 20:19 ` [PATCH 1/1] Topology c fix Zachary Amsden
2006-02-25 0:17 ` Andrew Vasquez
2006-01-19 16:29 ` RFC: ipath ioctls and their replacements Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-19 18:20 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-19 18:50 ` [openib-general] " Sean Hefty
2006-01-19 18:55 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-19 20:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-19 21:53 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-19 21:08 ` Sean Hefty
2006-01-19 21:52 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-19 18:50 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-19 20:29 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-01-19 20:47 ` [openib-general] " Steve Wise
2006-01-19 22:13 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-21 4:40 ` Roland Dreier
2006-01-25 22:32 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2006-01-25 22:43 ` [openib-general] " Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-01-25 22:55 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
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