From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio sysfs: add a "toggle" value
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 02:15:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906040215.48264.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0906040209r269fe700hffd0cdcba264ca0b@mail.gmail.com>
On Thursday 04 June 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> the point was to lower the number of user<->kernel transitions. yes,
> all of this stuff can of course be done in the shell, but it's hard to
> push limits when the interface is tying your hands and sitting on your
> back.
So what's the application that needs to do all this in
userspace yet which can't hook up a quick kernel driver?
I don't like the idea of embedding any kind of interpreter
in the sysfs interface, but that's the direction you seem
to be heading ...
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-04 9:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-03 8:16 [PATCH] gpio sysfs: add a "toggle" value Mike Frysinger
2009-06-04 7:54 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-04 8:16 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-04 8:27 ` David Brownell
2009-06-04 8:52 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-04 9:05 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-04 9:06 ` David Brownell
2009-06-04 9:09 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-04 9:15 ` David Brownell [this message]
2009-06-04 9:20 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-04 9:48 ` David Brownell
2009-06-04 10:06 ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-04 8:36 ` Andrew Morton
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