On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 20:17:36 +0300 Vlad Zolotarov <vl...@cloudius-systems.com> wrote:
> Add the ability for underlying device drivers to register the ioctl > commands. This is useful when some interaction with the user space > beyond sysfs capabilities is required, e.g. query the interrupt mode > or bind eventfd to interrupt notifications (similarly to vfio ioctl > VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS). > > Signed-off-by: Vlad Zolotarov <vl...@cloudius-systems.com> After discussions on and off list, the idea of an ioctl interface is just not going to be accepted upstream because it can be abused. Therefore another API will be necessary. Ps: since I did most of this first, I am surprised you never gave any attribution for the earlier work. -- 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/
