A 64-bit integer is easier to deal with than char[8], and has no difference over the wire. This series stems from a review of a patch I first submitted to the userspace NBD documentation: https://lists.debian.org/nbd/2023/03/msg00031.html Eric Blake (3): uapi nbd: improve doc links to userspace spec uapi nbd: add cookie alias to handle block nbd: use req.cookie instead of req.handle Documentation/admin-guide/blockdev/nbd.rst | 2 +- drivers/block/nbd.c | 4 ++-- include/uapi/linux/nbd.h | 25 +++++++++++++++++----- 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 2.39.2
