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

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Jun 29 2007 - 11:46:34 EST


On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:56:05 +0200
Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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