From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, hch@lst.de, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH md 1 of 2] Add interface to md driver for userspace monitoring of events.
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 12:45:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040907104534.GA5511@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16701.1683.847311.155379@cse.unsw.edu.au>
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 10:53:39AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
> On Monday September 6, akpm@osdl.org wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I'm sorry, but I don't see the "crap".
IF you want poll/select do a character device.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-07 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-03 2:27 [PATCH md 0 of 2] Introduction NeilBrown
2004-09-03 2:27 ` [PATCH md 2 of 2] Correct "working_disk" counts for raid5 and raid6 NeilBrown
2004-09-03 2:27 ` [PATCH md 1 of 2] Add interface to md driver for userspace monitoring of events NeilBrown
2004-09-03 10:19 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-06 1:05 ` Neil Brown
2004-09-06 14:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-09-06 22:53 ` Neil Brown
2004-09-06 23:07 ` Andrew Morton
2004-09-07 0:53 ` Neil Brown
2004-09-07 10:45 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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