linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/17] [RFC] AFS: Implement OpenAFS pioctls(version)s

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Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:59:52 +0100
From:	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
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	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-afs@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/17] [RFC] AFS: Implement OpenAFS pioctls(version)s

David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com> wrote:

> This series of patches provides a pioctl() system call, and makes kAFS use it
> to provide a number of of the OpenAFS pioctl functions sufficient to allow a
> number of OpenAFS userspace utilities work with kAFS.

The point of this is to permit unmodified OpenAFS userspace utilities to use
either the OpenAFS kernel module or the kAFS kernel module.

Whilst I might wish to ultimately replace the OpenAFS userspace utilities with
my own set, that's no small piece of work, and so a handy halfway stage is a
mixed environment as outlined above.

Furthermore, the ability to use the OpenAFS userspace utilities unmodified
with my kernel module, and, indeed vice-versa, makes testing much easier.

David
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