>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: Jeff> Why do we need all this syscall overhead just to read individual Jeff> data items? Jeff> Isn't it dumb to require 30 userland syscalls simply to input a Jeff> 10-member data structure? Jeff> netlink looks more and more attractive for anything non-trivial. I think these three knobs are very trivial :) I agree that traversing sysfs can be sucky. But for the mkfs-es of the world I expect most of this to be handled by libdisk. I also I really wanted something that could be easily scripted for installers to poke at. If these values were in any kind of hot path I'd be inclined to agree with the need for a different interface. But realistically these are only ever going to be accessed when creating a filesystem, partition or MD/DM device. So I opted to keep things simple. Doesn't mean we can't add another interface if there's a real need... -- Martin K. Petersen Oracle Linux Engineering -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
