[RESEND PATCH 2/2] NVMe: Add nvme subsystem reset IOCTL

J Freyensee james_p_freyensee at linux.intel.com
Tue Aug 11 14:23:07 PDT 2015


On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 11:13 -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 09:11:03AM -0700, J Freyensee wrote:
> > I just took a Linux Foundation training class and one of the points 
> > the
> > Foundation made was the Linux community wanting to move off of 
> > IOCTLs
> > to other userspace-to-kernelspace mechanisms (like sysfs for 
> > example). 
> 
> That's incorrect, and I don't think Linux Foundation trainers should
> claim to speak for the community.  If that's their standard of 
> training
> I'd ask for a refund.


Well, from old email threads (like this one: 
http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/ioctl.html), it appears Linus had a
preference of not using ioctl's, so maybe the Foundation bases its info
off of those old emails.  But I understand, it totally depends on the
implementation solution.




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