[dm-devel] Proposed change to dm ioctl interface

Kevin Corry corryk at us.ibm.com
Fri Mar 28 15:16:02 UTC 2003


On Friday 28 March 2003 14:02, Alasdair G Kergon wrote:
> Proposed structures for version 3.0.0 of dm-ioctl.h,
> also available from device-mapper CVS HEAD.
>
> Aim is to fix some alignment issues and always use 64 bits to
> pass the device so the interface itself won't need changing
> whatever the final __kernel_dev_t decision.
>
> Any further changes needed at this stage?
> If not, we'll release this (as patches, devmapper tarball etc.)
> next week.
>
> Alasdair

No problems here. We will update EVMS to use the new 64-bit-dev version of 
the ioctl packet.

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Kevin Corry
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