Re: [RFC] An alternative interface to device mapper

[Jonathan Corbet]

Hey, Daniel,

> In more detail: ddlink is a generic pipe-like interface for controlling 
> device drivers.

I'm not in a position to say much about the wider picture at the moment,
but one quibble comes immediately to mind: why do you create yet another
communication path into the kernel rather than using netlink, which is
already there and used in a number of other contexts?

jon
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/