From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joel Becker Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:36:42 -0800 Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Ocfs2: Implement new OCFS2_IOC_INFO ioctl for ocfs2. In-Reply-To: <87tywf4szb.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> References: <1259310276-7782-1-git-send-email-tristan.ye@oracle.com> <1259310276-7782-2-git-send-email-tristan.ye@oracle.com> <87tywf4szb.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> Message-ID: <20091130093641.GA5456@mail.oracle.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:23:36PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > It's unclear why you just can't use separate ioctls for each request. Because we're going to be adding many info requests, with more over time. Much nicer to pass in a list of requests than have a hundred or more ioctls. Plus we can do fun versioning. Joel -- "Sometimes I think the surest sign intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." -Calvin & Hobbes Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker at oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127