From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, agk@redhat.com, mbroz@redhat.com,
hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/15] dm: support ioctls on mapped devices
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:01:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060623100132.GB6985@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060622204907.48c0b841.akpm@osdl.org>
On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 08:49:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> My head is spinning in a twisty maze of ioctls. What _should_ we call?
> file_operations.foo_ioctl() or block_device_operations.foo_ioctl() or
> blkdev_ioctl()?
Neither. The only valid way to perform ioctls on blockdevices from
kernelspace is ioctl_by_bdev.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-23 10:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-21 19:31 Alasdair G Kergon
2006-06-22 3:52 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-22 8:15 ` Milan Broz
2006-06-22 8:29 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-22 15:17 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-06-22 16:55 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-23 3:31 ` Kevin Corry
2006-06-23 3:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-23 10:01 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2006-06-23 10:00 ` Christoph Hellwig
[not found] ` <20060623032108.28debec2.akpm@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 13:13 ` Milan Broz
2006-06-22 13:21 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-07-05 3:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
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