Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932499AbWADDeF (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:34:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932509AbWADDeE (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:34:04 -0500 Received: from mx.pathscale.com ([64.160.42.68]:30950 "EHLO mx.pathscale.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932499AbWADDeE (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jan 2006 22:34:04 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <1136323614.2869.20.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> References: <20051230080002.GA7438@kroah.com> <1135984304.13318.50.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> <20051231001051.GB20314@kroah.com> <1135993250.13318.94.camel@serpentine.pathscale.com> <20060103172732.GA9170@kroah.com> <1136321691.10862.61.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1136321851.2869.18.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1136323485.10862.74.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1136323614.2869.20.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:33:43 -0800 Message-Id: <1136345623.12190.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 700 Lines: 18 On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 22:26 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > Perhaps read/write on the character device file would be preferable to > > ioctls for sending and receiving these management packets? We don't > > implement those file methods at the moment, so it's not like we'd be > > displacing anything. > > if it's just data packets.. you could implement a device that offers the > SG_IO interface. OK, thanks for the pointer. I'll take a look.