Subject: Re: 2.6.11-rc2-mm1
From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ttb@tentacle.dhs.org
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Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 12:30:20 -0500
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On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 12:57 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:

Hello, Ingo.

> > Also ioctl is not an acceptable interface for adding new core
> > functionality.
> 
> seconded. Robert?

Well, I don't share the hatred for ioctl, at least compared to another
type unsafe interface like write().

But John and I are open to doing whatever is the consensus.  If there is
an agreed alternative, and that is the requirement for merging, I'll do
it.

I'd like to keep the user-space interface and simple, and absolutely
want to keep the single file descriptor approach.  How the fd is
obtained is up for discussion.

Ingo, what do you prefer?

Best,

	Robert Love


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