Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:17:16 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: RFC: ipath ioctls and their replacements | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 17:14:16 -0800
> That looks doable, but to my eyes, the netlink interface looks both > more cumbersome and less reliable than ioctl. At least it > apparently lets us do arbitrarily peculiar things :-)
It's going to give you strict typing, and extensible attributes for the configuration attributes you define. So if you determine later "oh we need to add this knob for changing X" you can do that without breaking the existing interface. With ioctl() that is usually impossible or unreasonably hard to accomplish.
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