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> I would rather have a true lean *abstract* ioctl/sysctl
> based interface
I very much distrust the possibility of defining any abstract interface.
For special purpose things one just wants to send certain commands and
data to the disk, and user space knows which commands and what data,
and the kernel doesn't, so has to allow user space access.
Andries
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