Re: ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs)

Mike Christie
2005-10-21T07:10:05Z

Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Which is best? I don't have a good answer. Largely depends on the
> situation, particularly queueing needs. Networking and storage are
> rapidly converging into "messaging", so the situation is highly fluid in
> any case. Coming from a networking background, I sorta lean towards the
> solution noone has attempted yet: netlink.

Dimitry and Alex did netlink for scsi_tranport_iscsi.c in scsi-misc.
Which reminds me of some of the problems they discovered. See here