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From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio sysfs: add a "toggle" value
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 02:15:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906040215.48264.david-b@pacbell.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0906040209r269fe700hffd0cdcba264ca0b@mail.gmail.com>

On Thursday 04 June 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> the point was to lower the number of user<->kernel transitions.  yes,
> all of this stuff can of course be done in the shell, but it's hard to
> push limits when the interface is tying your hands and sitting on your
> back.

So what's the application that needs to do all this in
userspace yet which can't hook up a quick kernel driver?

I don't like the idea of embedding any kind of interpreter
in the sysfs interface, but that's the direction you seem
to be heading ...





  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-04  9:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-03  8:16 [PATCH] gpio sysfs: add a "toggle" value Mike Frysinger
2009-06-04  7:54 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-04  8:16   ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-04  8:27     ` David Brownell
2009-06-04  8:52       ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-04  9:05         ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-04  9:06         ` David Brownell
2009-06-04  9:09           ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-04  9:15             ` David Brownell [this message]
2009-06-04  9:20               ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-04  9:48                 ` David Brownell
2009-06-04 10:06                   ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-04  8:36     ` Andrew Morton

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