On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 6:37 PM, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 8:25 AM, Tom Gundersen <t...@jklm.no> wrote: >> >> Could you elaborate on why you think syscalls would be more >> appropriate than ioctls? > > ioctl's tend to be a horrid mess both for things like compat.but also > for things like system call tracing and filtering (ie BPF). > > The compat mess is fixable by making sure you always use 64-bit fields > rather than pointers everywhere and everything is aligned.
This we do. > The > tracing and filtering one not so much. Got it. Thanks. Tom
