Re: [RFD w/info-PATCH] device arguments from lookup, partion code

Linus Torvalds
2001-05-22T01:13:59Z

On Tue, 22 May 2001, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>
> > command + rw-transaction: "dear device please mangle this data"
> > (crypto processors come to mind...)
>
> I can't think of a reasonable tool-based approach to this, but I can
> definitely see that a program could use this well. It simply requires
> that you use the filp to store your state.

Nope. You can (and people do, quite often) share filps. So you can't
associate state with it.

Linus