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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, karim@opersys.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/12] relayfs: export relayfs_create_file() with fileops param
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 19:37:49 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051111193749.GA17018@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17268.51975.485344.880078@tut.ibm.com>

On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:47:03AM -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> This patch adds a mandatory fileops param to relayfs_create_file() and
> exports that function so that clients can use it to create files
> defined by their own set of file operations, in relayfs.  The purpose
> is to allow relayfs applications to create their own set of 'control'
> files alongside their relay files in relayfs rather than having to
> create them in /proc or debugfs for instance.  relayfs_create_file()
> is also used by relay_open_buf() to create the relay files for a
> channel.  In this case, a pointer to relayfs_file_operations is passed
> in, along with a pointer to the buffer associated with the file.

Again, NACK,  control files don't belong into relayfs.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-11 19:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-11 16:44 [PATCH 0/12] relayfs: API additions and fixes Tom Zanussi
2005-11-11 16:46 ` [PATCH 1/12] relayfs: decouple buffer creation from inode creation Tom Zanussi
2005-11-11 16:47 ` [PATCH 2/12] relayfs: export relayfs_create_file() with fileops param Tom Zanussi
2005-11-11 19:37   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-11-11 19:49     ` Tom Zanussi
2005-12-06 17:29       ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-12-06 19:51         ` Tom Zanussi
2005-11-12  2:10     ` Baruch Even
2005-11-11 16:47 ` [PATCH 3/12] relayfs: add relayfs_remove_file() Tom Zanussi
2005-11-11 16:48 ` [PATCH 4/12] relayfs: use generic_ip for private data Tom Zanussi
2005-11-11 16:49 ` [PATCH 5/12] relayfs: remove unused alloc/destroy_inode() Tom Zanussi
2005-11-11 16:50 ` [PATCH 6/12] relayfs: add Documention for non-relay files Tom Zanussi
2005-11-11 16:51 ` [PATCH 7/12] relayfs: add support for relay files in other filesystems Tom Zanussi
2005-11-11 16:51 ` [PATCH 8/12] relayfs: add Documentation on " Tom Zanussi
2005-11-11 16:52 ` [PATCH 9/12] relayfs: add support for global relay buffers Tom Zanussi
2005-11-11 16:52 ` [PATCH 10/12] relayfs: add Documentation on " Tom Zanussi
2005-11-11 16:53 ` [PATCH 11/12] relayfs: cleanup, change relayfs_file_* to relay_file_* Tom Zanussi
2005-11-11 16:54 ` [PATCH 12/12] relayfs: Documentation cleanup, remove obsolete info Tom Zanussi

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