From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, <gregkh@suse.de>,
Paolo Abeni <paolo.abeni@email.it>,
<linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbmon: add binary interface
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:29:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061011142941.3c599e16.zaitcev@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0610111649440.6437-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:51:09 -0400 (EDT), Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Would relayfs be a better choice than debugfs for exporting potentially
> large quantities of binary data?
I'm sick of mounting them, so for the binary API I was going to
create a bunch of character devices with a dynamic major.
With udev, I do not even need to read /proc/devices myself.
Curiously enough, Marcel Holtmann argued for a device because he
did NOT want to run udev. Funny how that works.
-- Pete
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-11 21:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-11 8:57 [PATCH] usbmon: add binary interface Paolo Abeni
2006-10-11 14:09 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Stern
2006-10-11 19:44 ` Pavel Machek
2006-10-11 20:43 ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-10-11 20:51 ` [linux-usb-devel] " Alan Stern
2006-10-11 21:01 ` Greg KH
2006-10-11 21:29 ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]
2006-10-16 10:07 ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-10-12 8:17 ` Duncan Sands
2006-10-12 15:13 ` Pete Zaitcev
2006-10-18 4:48 ` Pete Zaitcev
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