reinstate dm target local ioctl support
From: Andy Whitcroft
Date: Thu Jan 28 2016 - 08:50:32 EST
With the commit below the dm ioctl support was reordered so that the
target only had to identify the underlying device, the dm_blk_ioctl()
itself then applied those ioctls to the appropriate device:
commit e56f81e0b01ef4e45292d8c1e19edd4d09724e14
Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Date: Thu Oct 15 14:10:50 2015 +0200
dm: refactor ioctl handling
However this also removed the possibility of a dm target having target
specific ioctls. Currently this is not used by any in-tree targets but
was utilised by the flashcache out-of-tree module.
How would we feel about carrying something like the patch below in
mainline to allow for such target local ioctls.
-apw