Messages in this thread |  | | From | Tom Zanussi <> | Date | Mon, 18 Jul 2005 09:31:28 -0500 | Subject | Re: Merging relayfs? |
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Hareesh Nagarajan writes: > Tom Zanussi wrote: > > Roman Zippel writes: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Tom Zanussi wrote: > > > > > > > The netlink control channel seems to work very well, but I can > > > > certainly change the examples to use something different. Could you > > > > suggest something? > > > > > > It just looks like a complicated way to do an ioctl, a control file that > > > you can read/write would be a lot simpler and faster. > > > > You're right - in previous versions, we did use ioctl - we ended up > > using netlink as it seemed like least offensive option to most people. > > I'll try modifying the example code to use a control file or something > > like that instead though. > > Having an ioctl() interface will definitely make things less > complicated. Are the older versions which use ioctl available off the > relayfs website?
Yes, the 'old relayfs' patches on the website implement ioctl.
Tom
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