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DateThu, 16 Oct 2003 21:49:57 -0400
FromJeff Garzik <>
SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] iSCSI target implementation
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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