Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm take4 2/6] support multiple logging

From: Andrew Morton <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:29:02 -0700

On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 17:14:28 +0900 Keiichi KII <[email-masked]> wrote:

> > On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:51:13 +0900
> > Keiichi KII <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > 
> >>> I started to do some cleanups and fixups here, but abandoned it when it was
> >>> all getting a bit large.
> >>>
> >>> Here are some fixes against this patch:
> >> I'm going to fix my patches by following your reviews and send new patches 
> >> on the LKML and the netdev ML in a few days.
> >>
> > 
> > Well..  before you can finish this work we need to decide upon what the
> > interface to userspace will be.
> > 
> > - The miscdev isn't appropriate
> > 
> 
> Why isn't miscdev appropriate? 
> We just shouldn't use miscdev for networking conventionally?
> 

Yes it's rather odd, especially for networking.

What does the miscdev _do_ anyway?  Is it purely a target for the ioctls?