Rick Troth wrote: > Maybe I'm a fool. I already had > one of our wiser members tell me privately to give up. Please don't. We might get to a point where we have a common understanding on a) what is needed and b) how we can possibly get there in a [by linux means] "clean" way.
I think that Martin is right to be critical about a generic diagnose interface, but fact is that he did favor an implementation that makes functionality of a specific diagnose available to userland: diag8. I don't see why other clean implementations of userspace access to a specific diagnose would not be accepted: Martin pointed out the diagnose 250 dasd device module as another example, the functionality can be used via the block device interface. Which concrete diagnose codes do you think are useful to be called from Linux userspace different from diag8? -- Carsten Otte IBM Linux technology center ARCH=s390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
