Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0 of 20] [RFC] ipath - PathScale InfiniPath driver | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:26:54 +0100 |
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> Perhaps read/write on the character device file would be preferable to > ioctls for sending and receiving these management packets? We don't > implement those file methods at the moment, so it's not like we'd be > displacing anything.
if it's just data packets.. you could implement a device that offers the SG_IO interface. Yes it's ioctls, but it's a preexisting ABI so I suspect that's not too big a deal (and maybe you can even leverage a lot of existing code for this)
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