Re: [ANNOUNCE] iSCSI target implementation

[Jeff Garzik]

Roman Zippel wrote:
> Anyway, while it's in the kernel, there are also some interesting issues
> for the kernel-user space communication. Right now it's a proc only
> interface (no sysfs as it's 2.4 only, no evil ioctl, but someone will
> kill me for the macro abuse :) ), but it should be rather easy to

Adding to procfs is only slightly less "ewww" than ioctls :)  A 
dedicated chrdev would be IMO preferred to procfs.

Al Viro also had even even more interesting suggestion for [zerocopy] 
kernel/userspace communication:  ramfs.

	Jeff



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