Re: ioctls, etc. (was Re: [PATCH 1/4] sas: add flag for locally attachedPHYs)

[Mike Christie]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Which is best?  I don't have a good answer.  Largely depends on the 
> situation, particularly queueing needs.  Networking and storage are 
> rapidly converging into "messaging", so the situation is highly fluid in 
> any case.  Coming from a networking background, I sorta lean towards the 
> solution noone has attempted yet:  netlink.

Dimitry and Alex did netlink for scsi_tranport_iscsi.c in scsi-misc. 
Which reminds me of some of the problems they discovered. See here
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=111273099708516&w=2
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