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SubjectRe: setting up CDB filters in udev (was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] block: add queue-private command filter, editable via sysfs)
> > It's not really about the lines of code.  It adds a new userland
> > visible interface. As for the "long" list of commands, it depends on
> > how you write it but even if it's textually long it's still very
> > simple in terms of actual complexity.
>
> Sure, but its place is not the kernel.
>
> As to implementing the ioctl, it's all but trivial. For one thing, you
> have to make the block device ioctl op take a "struct file". I have
> been asking Al Viro about it for 6 months and I haven't got any answer yet.

Just do it - if Al cared he'd have replied about it.

> I proposed a way to implement the ultimately flexible solution (BPF) and
> you shot it down because it was too complex. Alan is showing you with
> multiple examples of why the flexibility would be useful (perhaps nobody
> would use it, but the use cases _are_ there), and you are mostly
> ignoring them.

My feeling too - It feels to me like Tejun is trying to railroad a broken
non-solution into the system without regards for anyone else and by
simply dismissing any other input.

Alan


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