From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964925AbWFTHRQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:17:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964926AbWFTHRQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:17:16 -0400 Received: from relay2.uli.it ([62.212.1.5]:6295 "EHLO relay2.uli.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964925AbWFTHRQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:17:16 -0400 From: Daniele Orlandi To: Greg KH Subject: Re: Passing references to kobjects between userland and kernel Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 09:17:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200606141626.39273.daniele@orlandi.com> <200606200148.56117.daniele@orlandi.com> <20060619235355.GA26685@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20060619235355.GA26685@kroah.com> X-Message-Flag: Outlook puo' causare gravi danni alla salute. Pensaci. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200606200917.13504.daniele@orlandi.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tuesday 20 June 2006 01:53, Greg KH wrote: > > Why do you feel that this is a requirement? What exactly are you trying > to do? I have my channels interconnect graph, nicely exported to sysfs, and I just need an interface that an application could use to request connections between two nodes of this graph. The result of the connection is a pipeline object, also exported to sysfs, that the application will use to do further work on the connection. Currently I'm using an ioctl() but, given that ioctls seem to be a no-no for future projects, given that there is great effort in having new and better interfaces, I'm trying to figure out what is the best way to do what I need. thanks, Bye, -- Daniele Orlandi