From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Bob Smith <bsmith@linuxtoys.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 001/001] CHAR DRIVERS: a simple device to give daemons a /sys-like interface
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 10:35:12 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130803023512.GA22635@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51FC5A97.1090102@linuxtoys.org>
On Fri, Aug 02, 2013 at 06:19:19PM -0700, Bob Smith wrote:
> This character device can give daemons an interface similar to
> the kernel's /sys and /proc interfaces. It is a nice way to
> give user space drivers real device nodes in /dev.
Why not just use the cuse interface instead? How does this differ from
that /dev node interaction?
And how does this have anything to do with /sys? I can't see any sysfs
interaction in the code, or am I missing it?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-03 2:34 UTC|newest]
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2013-08-03 1:19 ` [PATCH 001/001] CHAR DRIVERS: a simple device to give daemons a /sys-like interface Bob Smith
2013-08-03 1:56 ` Joe Perches
2013-08-03 2:35 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-08-03 18:12 ` Bob Smith
2013-08-03 22:38 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-04 21:54 ` Bob Smith
2013-08-04 23:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-05 23:46 ` Bob Smith
2013-08-06 9:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-07 19:02 ` Bob Smith
2013-08-07 19:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-07 19:39 ` Bob Smith
2013-08-07 19:51 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-07 19:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-07 21:04 ` Bob Smith
2013-08-07 21:33 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-08 21:23 ` Bob Smith
2013-08-09 21:52 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-09 22:20 ` Bob Smith
2013-08-09 22:14 ` Bob Smith
2013-08-09 23:01 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-09 23:35 ` Bob Smith
2013-08-09 23:46 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-10 20:08 ` Bob Smith
2013-08-10 20:29 ` richard -rw- weinberger
2013-08-10 20:49 ` Bob Smith
2013-08-10 21:43 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-08-10 22:07 ` Bob Smith
2013-08-13 20:15 ` Arnd Bergmann
2013-08-07 21:28 ` Bob Smith
2013-08-07 21:40 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-07 21:53 ` Bob Smith
2013-08-09 21:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-09 22:51 ` Bob Smith
2013-08-09 23:04 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-08-07 21:38 ` Bob Smith
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