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Josef Bacik e46c7287b1 nbd: add a basic netlink interface
The existing ioctl interface for configuring NBD devices is a bit
cumbersome and hard to extend.  The other problem is we leave a
userspace app sitting in it's syscall until the device disconnects,
which is less than ideal.

This patch introduces a netlink interface for adding and disconnecting
nbd devices.  This has the benefits of being easily extendable without
breaking older userspace applications, and allows us to configure a nbd
device without leaving a userspace app sitting waiting for the device to
disconnect.

With this interface we also gain the ability to configure more devices
than are preallocated at insmod time.  We also have gained the ability
to not specify a particular device and be provided one for us so that
userspace doesn't need to find a free device to configure.

Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
2017-04-17 09:58:42 -06:00
arch Merge branch 'regset' (PTRACE_SETREGSET data leakage) 2017-03-29 08:55:25 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.