netdev - Re: RFC: Ioctl v2

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Message-ID: <Yof6hsC1hLiYITdh@lunn.ch>
Date:   Fri, 20 May 2022 22:31:02 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-block@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        mcgrof@...nel.org, tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: RFC: Ioctl v2

> I want to circulate this and get some comments and feedback, and if
> no one raises any serious objections - I'd love to get collaborators
> to work on this with me. Flame away!

Hi Kent

I doubt you will get much interest from netdev. netdev already
considers ioctl as legacy, and mostly uses netlink and a message
passing structure, which is easy to extend in a backwards compatible
manor.

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/netlink.7.html

	Andrew