From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Alasdair Kergon <agk@redhat.com>,
Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
mohan_srinivasan@yahoo.com, dm-devel@redhat.com,
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.com>,
linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Subject: Re: reinstate dm target local ioctl support
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 15:00:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160128140022.GA15941@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1453989019-24300-1-git-send-email-apw@canonical.com>
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 01:50:19PM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> However this also removed the possibility of a dm target having target
> specific ioctls. Currently this is not used by any in-tree targets but
> was utilised by the flashcache out-of-tree module.
>
> How would we feel about carrying something like the patch below in
> mainline to allow for such target local ioctls.
Bad. Because a) targets shouldn't have their own ioctls and b) your out
of tree modules are your problem, don't burden us wіth upstream
workarounds for it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-28 14:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-28 13:50 reinstate dm target local ioctl support Andy Whitcroft
2016-01-28 14:00 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2016-01-29 13:55 ` [dm-devel] " Joe Thornber
2016-01-29 13:57 ` Alasdair G Kergon
2016-01-29 14:35 ` Andy Whitcroft
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