From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, karim@opersys.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] relayfs: add support for non-relay files
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 09:02:27 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051110090227.GA6358@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17266.28430.472991.124439@tut.ibm.com>
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:50:06PM -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently, the relayfs API only supports the creation of directories
> (relayfs_create_dir()) and relay files (relay_open()). This patch
> adds support for non-relay files (relayfs_create_file()).
>
> This is so relayfs applications can create 'control files' in relayfs
> itself rather than in /proc or via a netlink channel, as is currently
> done in the relay-app examples. There were several comments that the
> use of netlink in the example code was non-intuitive and in fact the
> whole relay-app business was needlessly confusing. Based on that
> feedback, the example code has been completely converted over to
> relayfs control files as supported by this patch, and have also been
> made completely self-contained. The converted examples can be found
> here:
NACK. please do one thing at a time in relayfs instead of adding everthing
and a kitchen sink.
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2005-11-09 21:50 Tom Zanussi
2005-11-10 9:02 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-11-10 16:20 ` Tom Zanussi
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