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SubjectRe: Is it time for remove (crap) ALSA from kernel tree ?
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> Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> > Not as if it would be hard to add ioctl support to fuse. What fuse
> > can't handle is the data argument of ioctl(), so the most it could do
> > is give the filesystem a pid (tid) and a virtual address. The
> > userspace fs could then get/put the data through /proc/<pid>/mem.
>
> Hork...
>
> Identify the generic ioctls that are relevant to a FUSE file system and
> have real meaning *and* are useful.

I don't think there are any such.

The point in this thread was I think about emulating an OSS sound
device through a fuse fs. In that case fuse would need _generic_
ioctl support, which simply can't be done without weird userspace
hacks. I'm definitely not adding specific ioctls to fuse.

Miklos
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