Re: [PATCH 12/15] dm: add exports

[Alasdair G Kergon]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 09:05:04PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Twenty new exports.  What are they all for?

The exports correspond to the functionality available to userspace through
the existing ioctl interface.

Currently, we only offer an ioctl interface for device-mapper and this is
unsuitable for any future in-kernel users wishing to make use of
device-mapper facilities.

Alasdair
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