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On Mon, 14 May 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:34:53PM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > Export eventfd kernel functions to modules.
> 
> Why?

KVM developers asked for it. It seem they'll be using eventfd to signal 
events to userspace.



- Davide