Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964895AbVJUHKH (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:10:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964892AbVJUHKH (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:10:07 -0400 Received: from sabe.cs.wisc.edu ([128.105.6.20]:8898 "EHLO sabe.cs.wisc.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964890AbVJUHKF (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Oct 2005 03:10:05 -0400 Message-ID: <43587805.7060306@cs.wisc.edu> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 00:09:25 -0500 From: Mike Christie User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-6 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: andrew.patterson@hp.com, Luben Tuikov , Christoph Hellwig , "Moore, Eric Dean" , jejb@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attached PHYs) References: <91888D455306F94EBD4D168954A9457C048F0E34@nacos172.co.lsil.com> <20051020160155.GA14296@lst.de> <4357CB03.4020400@adaptec.com> <20051020170330.GA16458@lst.de> <4357F7DE.7050004@adaptec.com> <1129852879.30258.137.camel@bluto.andrew> <43583A53.2090904@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <43583A53.2090904@pobox.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 811 Lines: 16 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 http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=111273099708516&w=2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/