From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: new tool: blktool
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 01:54:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3wu00c5ym.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2tCLz-dp-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (Mark Lord's message of "Mon, 16 Aug 2004 01:40:05 +0200")
Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca> writes:
> hdparm works for some SCSI devices already, and support for
> more is already on the way. I imagine I can have it handle
> whatever new ioctls() are being provided from libata as well.
I can see Jeff's point that the one letter options are not
very nice (I often have to look them up in the man page too ...)
And it's probably true that it will soon run out of letters.
Any chance you could add GNU style long options using getopt_long()?
-Andi
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-15 23:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <2tATw-7md-25@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <2tCLz-dp-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-08-15 23:54 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-08-15 21:36 new tool: blktool Jeff Garzik
2004-08-15 20:55 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-15 22:07 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-15 22:18 ` David Ford
2004-08-15 22:22 ` Anton Starikov
2004-08-15 22:40 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-15 23:00 ` Anton Starikov
2004-08-15 23:27 ` Mark Lord
2004-08-15 23:34 ` Mark Lord
2004-08-15 23:44 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-15 23:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-16 2:36 ` Mark Lord
2004-08-16 16:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-19 15:03 ` Mark Lord
2004-08-19 15:51 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2004-08-19 17:44 ` Mark Lord
2004-08-19 17:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-19 17:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-19 18:01 ` Mark Lord
2004-08-19 18:04 ` Mark Lord
2004-08-19 18:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-19 18:42 ` Mark Lord
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