Re: reinstate dm target local ioctl support

From: Alasdair G Kergon
Date: Fri Jan 29 2016 - 08:57:19 EST


On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 01:50:19PM +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> 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.

What data is being passed in and out?

The method we support is passing it through DM_TARGET_MSG (as text).
For examples look at dm-switch.c and dm-stats.c, which handled
pretty large quantities of data.

Would that work?

Alasdair