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From: Joe Thornber <thornber@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] reinstate dm target local ioctl support
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 13:55:34 +0000
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 01:50:19PM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> How would we feel about carrying something like the patch below in
> mainline to allow for such target local ioctls.

You can send a dm message to individual targets.  No need for target
specific ioctls.

- Joe