> We are not going to implement SDI in the kernel. Long before SDI or > it's predecessor, HP CSMI were designed we made it clear we're not going > to accept wide ioctl-APIs, especially when they're even bad for old > ioctl API standards. The CSMI spec has been passed around in an early > phase and been totally rejected, Just to say AYE on this: the problem with these things is that they define an IOCTL interface, while a library level interface would have been a LOT better. By far. That way the spec doesn't define the implementation, but only a real INTERFACE while allowing flexibility and compatibility. IOCTLs are just very very much the wrong layer to put such an interface. (just as posix/sus specify the (g)libc interface and not the kernel interface, although of course they impact it somewhat and glibc can for several things do a straight pass-through to the raw kernel interface). - : 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
