Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:01:32 +0200 | | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/15] dm: support ioctls on mapped devices |
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On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 08:49:07PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > My head is spinning in a twisty maze of ioctls. What _should_ we call? > file_operations.foo_ioctl() or block_device_operations.foo_ioctl() or > blkdev_ioctl()?
Neither. The only valid way to perform ioctls on blockdevices from kernelspace is ioctl_by_bdev.
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