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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [Evms-devel] Re: [PATCH] EVMS core 3/4: evms_ioctl.h
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On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 01:50:00PM -0400, Alexander Viro wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> > I don't think that basing kernel internal interfaces on ioctl is
> > a smart idea.  Just add another function pionter to your operations
> > vector for every operation you want supported on volumes.
> 
> s/every/& generic/.  Other than that, seconded.  BTW, one of the pending
> changes is taking the last more or less generic ioctl (HDIO_GETGEO) into
> a separate method...

Well, I implied generic ioctl as the EVMS "API" (aka collection of random
ioctls) is about that generic interface.

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