Re: [RFC PATCH 1/4] sysctl: API extension for handling sysctl

Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]> Wed, 1 Jun 2022 20:19:14 +0100
Newsgroups dev.linux.lists.containers,org.kernel.vger.linux-fsdevel,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
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On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 03:20:29PM +0200, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> +struct ctl_fops {
> +	int (*open) (struct ctl_context *, struct inode *, struct file *);
> +	int (*release) (struct ctl_context *, struct inode *, struct file *);
> +	ssize_t (*read) (struct ctl_context *, struct file *, char *, size_t *, loff_t *);
> +	ssize_t (*write) (struct ctl_context *, struct file *, char *, size_t *, loff_t *);
> +};

Why not pass the iocb in ->read and ->write?  We're still regretting not
doing that with file_operations.