On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 18:01 -0600, Andrew Patterson wrote: > Yes, CSMI should have had more Linux input when it was developed. The > no-new IOCTL policy certainly came as a surprise to the authors. Still, > there doesn't seem to be any other usable cross-platform interface that > is acceptable to the linux community (or at least to Christoph)'s corner > of it). My personal preference is to hide this stuff in a library, so > the kernel implementation is hidden. But even a library needs an > underlying kernel implementation. but why didn't CSMI specify the library interface then? If it did that, then none of the "ioctls are deprecated for 3 years now" would have come as a surprise. Or rather, it maybe would have, but it wouldn't have mattered to the management app. - : 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
