Re: Common removable media interface?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:11:32 +0000 (GMT)


> OK, you are right. Bloat is bad. So,
> would you say that new drivers should keep ioctls
> to a bare minimum, much less than cdrom.c, and just
> provide generic access, like SG_IO/HDIO_DRIVE_CMD,
> as a general rule from now on?
> (Sounds OK to me...)

Even better would be to move the from the existing drivers into a kernel
compat module you can load for older apps/tools. Our module tools and kernel
code already allow that module to be loaded on demand

Alan

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