Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Jan 2016 13:57:12 +0000 | From | Alasdair G Kergon <> | Subject | Re: reinstate dm target local ioctl support |
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 01:50:19PM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > However this also removed the possibility of a dm target having target > specific ioctls. Currently this is not used by any in-tree targets but > was utilised by the flashcache out-of-tree module. What data is being passed in and out?
The method we support is passing it through DM_TARGET_MSG (as text). For examples look at dm-switch.c and dm-stats.c, which handled pretty large quantities of data.
Would that work?
Alasdair
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