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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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
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To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
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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.