[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 2/2] Ocfs2: Implement new OCFS2_IOC_INFO ioctl for ocfs2.

Joel Becker Joel.Becker at oracle.com
Mon Nov 30 01:36:42 PST 2009


On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 09:23:36PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> It's unclear why you just can't use separate ioctls for each request.

	Because we're going to be adding many info requests, with more
over time.  Much nicer to pass in a list of requests than have a hundred
or more ioctls.  Plus we can do fun versioning.

Joel

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