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Subject: Re: [RFC 1/3] /dev/low_mem_notify
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On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 13:40 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> What is the practical advantage of a syscall, again?

Why do you ask? The advantage for this particular case is not needing to
add ioctls() for configuration and keeping the file read/write ABI
simple.

			Pekka