Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] sysctl: API extension for handling sysctl

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 03:20:29PM +0200, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> +struct ctl_fops {
> +	int (*open) (struct ctl_context *, struct inode *, struct file *);
> +	int (*release) (struct ctl_context *, struct inode *, struct file *);
> +	ssize_t (*read) (struct ctl_context *, struct file *, char *, size_t *, loff_t *);
> +	ssize_t (*write) (struct ctl_context *, struct file *, char *, size_t *, loff_t *);
> +};

Why not pass the iocb in ->read and ->write?  We're still regretting not
doing that with file_operations.