Re: Queuing multiple task_struct structures?

From: Alan Cox
Date: Tue Oct 04 2011 - 06:43:28 EST


> thread which uses the ioctl() system call to send a userspace buffer
> to my block device driver. Once I queue up multiple task_structs, I
> would like to keep them on the queue until a particular condition is
> met (i.e., the buffer has been written down to the disk).

We already have a perfectly usable raw I/O interface set, why not just
use those ?

Alan
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