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From: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 12/15] dm: add exports
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:51:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060622135117.GS19222@agk.surrey.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060621210504.b1f387bd.akpm@osdl.org>

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 09:05:04PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Twenty new exports.  What are they all for?

The exports correspond to the functionality available to userspace through
the existing ioctl interface.

Currently, we only offer an ioctl interface for device-mapper and this is
unsuitable for any future in-kernel users wishing to make use of
device-mapper facilities.

Alasdair
-- 
agk@redhat.com

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-22 13:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-21 19:36 [PATCH 12/15] dm: add exports Alasdair G Kergon
2006-06-22  4:05 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-22 13:51   ` Alasdair G Kergon [this message]
2006-06-22 17:03     ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-23 15:00       ` Alasdair G Kergon
2006-06-23 15:22         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-23 15:33         ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-06-23 21:00           ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-23 22:15             ` Alasdair G Kergon

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