Re: Merging relayfs?

[Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>]

Hareesh Nagarajan writes:
 > Tom Zanussi wrote:
 > > Roman Zippel writes:
 > >  > Hi,
 > >  > 
 > >  > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Tom Zanussi wrote:
 > >  > 
 > >  > > The netlink control channel seems to work very well, but I can
 > >  > > certainly change the examples to use something different.  Could you
 > >  > > suggest something?
 > >  > 
 > >  > It just looks like a complicated way to do an ioctl, a control file that 
 > >  > you can read/write would be a lot simpler and faster.
 > > 
 > > You're right - in previous versions, we did use ioctl - we ended up
 > > using netlink as it seemed like least offensive option to most people.
 > > I'll try modifying the example code to use a control file or something
 > > like that instead though.
 > 
 > Having an ioctl() interface will definitely make things less 
 > complicated. Are the older versions which use ioctl available off the 
 > relayfs website?

Yes, the 'old relayfs' patches on the website implement ioctl.

Tom


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