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From: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Subject: netlink vs. debugfs (was Re: [Patch 0/6] statistics infrastructure)
Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 11:09:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4471FE52.8090107@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060519092411.6b859b51.akpm@osdl.org>

Andrew Morton wrote:
> Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>> My patch series is a proposal for a generic implementation of statistics.
> 
> This uses debugfs for the user interface, but the
> per-task-delay-accounting-*.patch series from Balbir creates an extensible
> netlink-based system for passing instrumentation results back to userspace.
> 
> Can this code be converted to use those netlink interfaces, or is Balbir's
> approach unsuitable, or hasn't it even been considered, or what?

Can someone give me the 20-second elevator pitch on why
netlink is preferred over debugfs?  I've heard of a
number of debugfs/procfs users requested to switch over.

Thanks,
 -- Tim

=============================
Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Electronics
=============================

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-22 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-19 16:07 [Patch 0/6] statistics infrastructure Martin Peschke
2006-05-19 16:24 ` Andrew Morton
     [not found]   ` <661de9470605191159n75578d60qd1f3309e3a7e2234@mail.gmail.com>
2006-05-19 19:02     ` Balbir Singh
2006-05-19 23:03   ` Martin Peschke
2006-05-21 11:29     ` Balbir Singh
2006-05-22 18:09   ` Tim Bird [this message]
2006-05-22 18:34     ` netlink vs. debugfs (was Re: [Patch 0/6] statistics infrastructure) Balbir Singh
2006-05-22 18:53       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2006-05-23 16:59   ` [Patch 0/6] statistics infrastructure Martin Peschke
2006-05-23 21:42     ` Andrew Morton
2006-05-24  3:12       ` Balbir Singh

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