Hello, Alan. On Sat, Nov 03, 2012 at 02:50:52PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > I proposed a way to implement the ultimately flexible solution (BPF) and > > you shot it down because it was too complex. Alan is showing you with > > multiple examples of why the flexibility would be useful (perhaps nobody > > would use it, but the use cases _are_ there), and you are mostly > > ignoring them. > > My feeling too - It feels to me like Tejun is trying to railroad a broken > non-solution into the system without regards for anyone else and by > simply dismissing any other input.
The only other use case brought up is allowing use of vendor-specific commands while burning CDs. Given that the usual burning has been working well enough for years now, I don't really think that's a strong enough reason to add full BPF filtering to SG_IO. It's just highly unusual thing to do and there isn't strong enough use case for it. To me, it feels like you guys are pushing a feature without strong enough use case. So, I'm still pretty strongly against it. Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
