Re: f_ops flag to speed up compatible ioctls in linux kernel

[Roland Dreier]

    Chris> You forgot a driver specific filesystem which exposes
    Chris> requests in a file per request type style.  Also, there's a
    Chris> simple_transaction type of file which can allow you
    Chris> send/recv data and should eliminate the need for tagging.
    Chris> Example, look at nfsd fs (fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c).

Thanks, I'll take a look at this.  How does one handle the 32-bit
userspace / 64-bit kernel compat layer in this setup?

 - R.

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