From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>,
Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>,
Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] introduce dynamic device creation/removal
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 10:33:56 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150228013356.GA5768@swordfish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150227145109.b5656bdf853c2d283bf9268e@linux-foundation.org>
On (02/27/15 14:51), Andrew Morton wrote:
> hoo boy. Creating a /dev node and doing ioctls on it is really old
> school. So old school that I've forgotten why we don't do it any more.
>
> Hopefully Alan can recall the thinking?
oh. I thought this is how loop control works, and ioctl there doesn't look
insane to me.
any quick hint how do you do this in a modern world so I'll redo the patch set?
-ss
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-28 1:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-26 14:10 [PATCH 0/8] introduce dynamic device creation/removal Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-02-26 14:10 ` [PATCH 1/8] zram: cosmetic ZRAM_ATTR_RO code formatting tweak Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-02-26 14:10 ` [PATCH 2/8] zram: use idr instead of `zram_devices' array Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-02-26 14:10 ` [PATCH 3/8] zram: factor out device reset from reset_store() Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-02-26 14:10 ` [PATCH 4/8] zram: add dynamic device add/remove functionality Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-02-26 14:10 ` [PATCH 5/8] zram: return zram device_id value from zram_add() Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-02-26 14:10 ` [PATCH 6/8] zram: allow automatic new zram device_id assignment Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-02-26 14:10 ` [PATCH 7/8] zram: remove max_num_devices limitation Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-02-26 14:10 ` [PATCH 8/8] zram: report every added and removed device Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-02-27 22:51 ` [PATCH 0/8] introduce dynamic device creation/removal Andrew Morton
2015-02-28 1:33 ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]
2015-02-28 1:50 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-02-28 3:34 ` Sergey Senozhatsky
2015-02-28 4:29 ` Andrew Morton
2015-03-02 14:18 ` Alan Cox
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