From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>, Linux PM <linux-pm@osdl.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [RFC/RFT][PATCH -mm 2/5] swsusp: userland interface (rev. 2)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 01:55:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060105005559.GC1751@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060105002619.GA16714@kroah.com>
Hi!
> > > Unless you want to turn these into syscalls :)
> >
> > Well, I think we simply want to get static major/minor allocated for
> > this device. It really uses read/write, IIRC, so no, I do not think we
> > want to make it a syscall.
>
> Ok, then I'd recommend using the misc device, dynamic for now, and
> reserve one when you get a bit closer to merging into mainline.
Actually, misc major (character, major 10) seems to be okay,
too. There's stuff like /dev/fuse there, already. But it feels little
crowded there, and /dev/snapshot seems to fit between memory devices
nicely...
Pavel
--
Thanks, Sharp!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-05 0:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-04 22:40 [RFC/RFT][PATCH -mm 0/5] swsusp: userland interface (rev. 2) Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-04 22:47 ` [RFC/RFT][PATCH -mm 1/5] swsusp: swsusp: low level " Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-04 22:51 ` [RFC/RFT][PATCH -mm 2/5] swsusp: userland " Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-04 23:49 ` [linux-pm] " Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:18 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-05 0:26 ` Greg KH
2006-01-05 0:54 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-05 0:55 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-01-05 23:34 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-05 23:45 ` Greg KH
2006-01-04 22:53 ` [RFC/RFT][PATCH -mm 3/5] swsusp: separate swap-writing and reading code " Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-04 22:55 ` [RFC/RFT][PATCH -mm 4/5] swsusp: move highmem-handling code to swsusp.c " Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-04 22:56 ` [RFC/RFT][PATCH -mm 5/5] swsusp: userland interface documentation and config Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-05 1:05 ` [RFC/RFT][PATCH -mm 0/5] swsusp: userland interface (rev. 2) Pavel Machek
2006-01-05 23:30 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-06 21:17 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-06 22:44 ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-06 23:41 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-06 23:59 ` Pavel Machek
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