linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] introduce dynamic device creation/removal

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Message-ID: <20150228013356.GA5768@swordfish>
Date:	Sat, 28 Feb 2015 10:33:56 +0900
From:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@...hat.com>,
	Nitin Gupta <ngupta@...are.org>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] introduce dynamic device creation/removal

On (02/27/15 14:51), Andrew Morton wrote:
> hoo boy.  Creating a /dev node and doing ioctls on it is really old
> school.  So old school that I've forgotten why we don't do it any more.
> 
> Hopefully Alan can recall the thinking?

oh. I thought this is how loop control works, and ioctl there doesn't look
insane to me.

any quick hint how do you do this in a modern world so I'll redo the patch set?

	-ss
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