[PATCH 2/5] /dev/vring: simple userspace-kernel ringbuffer interface.

Jonathan Corbet corbet at lwn.net
Sat Apr 19 08:02:04 PDT 2008


> So I think it would be good to plonk the proposed interface on the table
> and have a poke at it.  Is it compat-safe?  Is it extensible in a
> backward-compatible fashion?  Are there future-safe changes we should make
> to it?  Can Michael Kerrisk understand, review and document it?  etc.
> 
> You know what I'm saying ;)  What is the proposed interface?

So, I'm not Michael, but I *did* make an attempt to document this
interface - user and kernel sides - so that it could be more easily
understood:

	http://lwn.net/Articles/276856/

That was the previous posting, but a quick look suggests it hasn't
changed *that* much in this round.

jon


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