Re: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:56:05 +0200
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> Not as if it would be hard to add ioctl support to fuse.  What fuse
> can't handle is the data argument of ioctl(), so the most it could do
> is give the filesystem a pid (tid) and a virtual address.  The
> userspace fs could then get/put the data through /proc/<pid>/mem.

Hork...

Identify the generic ioctls that are relevant to a FUSE file system and
have real meaning *and* are useful. Teach fuse to turn those to and from
messages properly and if you must add any others (ie if there is good
reason to want them then add a single FUSEFS ioctl something like

	struct fusefs_ioctl {
		u32 opcode;
		void *data_in;
		void *data_out;
		u16 size_in;
		u16 size_out;
	}

so that anything totally weird can be passed through without
horrible /proc/... hacks and without putting tons of cases into FUSE

		
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