Re: block layer sg, bsg

[Jens Axboe]

On Wed, Aug 04 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 08:44:29AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > Or use a more portable well-defined type which does not change
> > size nor layout between 32-bit and 64-bit environments.
> 
> IMO if this (the above) is not done, the interface needs work.
> 
> For interfaces that replace ioctl(2) with read(2)/write(2), for passing
> data structures to/from the kernel, Al has rightly suggested that these
> structures be not only fixed size (as David described above), but also
> fixed-endian.

I completely agree with that, we need a different structure for other
devices as well. Show me what you'd like for libata, for instance.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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