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* device-mapper v4 ioctl interface patchset
@ 2003-07-11  9:57 Joe Thornber
  2003-07-11  9:59 ` [Patch 1/2] dm: 'wait for event' race Joe Thornber
  2003-07-11 10:00 ` [Patch 2/2] dm: v4 ioctl interface Joe Thornber
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Joe Thornber @ 2003-07-11  9:57 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds, Linux Mailing List; +Cc: thornber

Linus,

Please merge.

These 2 patches implement the new ioctl interface for device-mapper.
This new interface is selectable with a config option, people can
continue to use the v1 interface if they wish.

The main issues that v4 addresses are:

i)  ioctl structure size issues on different architectures.

ii) tables can now be preloaded to avoid having to allocate memory
    while devices are suspended.

iii) Fix a userland race condition associated with the 'wait for
     event' ioctl.


- Joe

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