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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH md 1 of 2] Add interface to md driver for userspace
 monitoring of events.
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 16:07:38 -0700
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Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
>
> > poll on procfs is defintily abuse, even in categories of the use procfs
>  > every times.
>  > 
> 
>  Oh well..  If you gain more from the patch not going in than I gain
>  from it going in, so be it.

That's not the point.  Sure, the code works and is useful.  But it takes a
crappy interface and makes it crappier.

You know where we'd end up if we took that attitude all the time, yes?

Could we explore a medium-term plan to tidy all this up?