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On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 01:12:39AM +0100, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 03:57:44PM -0800, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > Things like cache control, partition info, and wedge info are device
> > abstractions that every (appropriate) device should support, and that I
> > can see file systems and other kernel-level device users wanting to=20
> > access.
> >=20
> > So I think the best thing to do is to come up with a clean and sane way=
 to=20
> > make all IOCTL use kernel-able and to document it. :-)
>=20
> Well.. you'd need an explicit kernel/userspace flag as far as I can see.
> Like uio does.

I think we can overload the proc parameter to handle this, and let proc =3D=
=3D=20
NULL indicate kernel context.

Take care,

Bill

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