From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Vlad Zolotarov <vladz@cloudius-systems.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mst@redhat.com, hjk@hansjkoch.de,
corbet@lwn.net, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
bruce.richardson@intel.com, avi@cloudius-systems.com,
gleb@cloudius-systems.com, alexander.duyck@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/4] uio: add ioctl support
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 22:33:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151006223349.4befe0a0@samsung9> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1444151859-10217-2-git-send-email-vladz@cloudius-systems.com>
On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 20:17:36 +0300
Vlad Zolotarov <vladz@cloudius-systems.com> wrote:
> Add the ability for underlying device drivers to register the ioctl
> commands. This is useful when some interaction with the user space
> beyond sysfs capabilities is required, e.g. query the interrupt mode
> or bind eventfd to interrupt notifications (similarly to vfio ioctl
> VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS).
>
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Zolotarov <vladz@cloudius-systems.com>
After discussions on and off list, the idea of an ioctl interface
is just not going to be accepted upstream because it can be abused.
Therefore another API will be necessary.
Ps: since I did most of this first, I am surprised you never gave
any attribution for the earlier work.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-06 21:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-06 17:17 [PATCH v5 0/4] uio: add MSI/MSI-X support to uio_pci_generic driver Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 17:17 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] uio: add ioctl support Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 21:33 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2015-10-07 8:17 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-07 8:18 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-07 8:46 ` Greg KH
2015-10-07 8:55 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-07 17:21 ` Greg KH
2015-10-07 17:28 ` Vlad Zolotarov
[not found] ` <CAOaVG17hMG7cAnD_DZ9J3pRMpXctx3o_EF8A62vtZx6Mv9c-2g@mail.gmail.com>
2015-10-07 19:00 ` Vlad Zolotarov
[not found] ` <CAOaVG147Fxq0VyohAFBvw4cxtLRw3qd2aNt-e2Vr4_R5EYs7zQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-10-08 12:41 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-08 13:03 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-10-06 17:17 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] uio_pci_generic: properly initialize PCI bars mappings towards UIO Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 17:17 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] uio_pci_generic: add MSI/MSI-X support Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 21:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-10-06 17:17 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] Documentation: update uio-howto Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 18:27 ` [PATCH v5 0/4] uio: add MSI/MSI-X support to uio_pci_generic driver Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-06 20:35 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 20:48 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-06 22:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-07 8:38 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-07 10:42 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-10-07 13:44 ` Vlad Zolotarov
2015-10-07 13:55 ` Vlad Zolotarov
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