Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 16 Oct 2003 21:49:57 -0400 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] iSCSI target implementation |
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Roman Zippel wrote: > Anyway, while it's in the kernel, there are also some interesting issues > for the kernel-user space communication. Right now it's a proc only > interface (no sysfs as it's 2.4 only, no evil ioctl, but someone will > kill me for the macro abuse :) ), but it should be rather easy to
Adding to procfs is only slightly less "ewww" than ioctls :) A dedicated chrdev would be IMO preferred to procfs.
Al Viro also had even even more interesting suggestion for [zerocopy] kernel/userspace communication: ramfs.
Jeff
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