Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take4 2/6] support multiple logging

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Apr 24 2007 - 04:29:41 EST


On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:14:28 +0900 Keiichi KII <k-keiichi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:51:13 +0900
> > Keiichi KII <k-keiichi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >>> I started to do some cleanups and fixups here, but abandoned it when it was
> >>> all getting a bit large.
> >>>
> >>> Here are some fixes against this patch:
> >> I'm going to fix my patches by following your reviews and send new patches
> >> on the LKML and the netdev ML in a few days.
> >>
> >
> > Well.. before you can finish this work we need to decide upon what the
> > interface to userspace will be.
> >
> > - The miscdev isn't appropriate
> >
>
> Why isn't miscdev appropriate?
> We just shouldn't use miscdev for networking conventionally?
>

Yes it's rather odd, especially for networking.

What does the miscdev _do_ anyway? Is it purely a target for the ioctls?
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