Hi all On Sun, 29 May 2005, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > On Sat, 28 May 2005, James Bottomley wrote: > > > Before you go any further, I suggest you think about what an ioctl is > > and why we're going through a process of trying to get rid of them in > > the kernel: They're structured streams of information, where the > > structure is architecture and 64/32 bit dependent (look at all the > > issues over compat ioctls). Inherently these things will be incredibly I haven't given up, I just have little time:-) Let me just see, if my current understanding is nearer to what was suggested by James B.: Get ide-cd (ATAPI command generator) and cdrom (ioctl translator) drivers work with nbd by emulating an ATAPI CD-ROM. You would have to explain users why they need the ide cdrom driver even when they are connecting to a quite different target... I would add - make this a configuration option, since not all (embedded) systems might want to compile and load ide-cd and cdrom drivers just to be able to use nbd, if they only need a network-exported hd. Still a question - when to do open / close on the server: on start / stop (disconnect) - not nice, from open / close on client, on lockdoor() GPCMD_PREVENT_ALLOW_MEDIUM_REMOVAL commands? My guess would still be from client open / close, because then you can pass flags / return code. Not sure how easy it is to do this 64bit clean? Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
