Re: [PATCH 2/7] miscdevice: adding support for MPI3MR_MINOR(243)

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Kashyap,

> Immediately dropping ioctl support will create lots of issues for
> Development/Test (within a org + OEM testing).  How about accepting
> updated ioctl patch-set after reviewed-by tag (which will not use
> static MAJOR number) for time being ?

If we were to introduce an ioctl interface for mpi3mr we would never be
able to deprecate it without breaking existing applications.

While I appreciate that it is inconvenient to have to update your
tooling, this is the only chance we have to get the interface right.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering



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