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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>,
	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	"Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>,
	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: add support for poll()
Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 15:17:32 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110608151732.2b321b9a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTin5P8P_HR78qo0oyzeu9hpWazZqTw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 19:32:49 +0200
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:

> > Nacked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> 
> Acked-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>

The patch itself doesn't look too bad to me...

We already have several pollable procfs files, such as
fs/proc/base.c:mounts_poll() and I think drivers/md has one.  I do
think that any work in this area should end up with those custom
make-procfs-pollable hacks being identified and removed.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-08 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-01 12:14 [PATCH] sysctl: add support for poll() Lucas De Marchi
2011-06-02  2:51 ` Lucas De Marchi
2011-06-02  3:31   ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-06-02 12:06     ` Kay Sievers
2011-06-02 12:43       ` Alan Cox
2011-06-02 13:01         ` Kay Sievers
2011-06-02 13:02         ` Lucas De Marchi
2011-06-02 13:12           ` Alan Cox
2011-06-02 13:24             ` Kay Sievers
2011-06-02 13:56           ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-06-02 17:32             ` Kay Sievers
2011-06-08 22:17               ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2011-06-09 13:16                 ` Kay Sievers
2011-06-13 16:05                   ` Kay Sievers
2011-06-14  3:53                     ` Lucas De Marchi
2011-06-14  4:17                     ` NeilBrown
2011-07-26  2:17                     ` Lucas De Marchi
2011-08-02 22:53                       ` Kay Sievers
2011-08-02 23:16                         ` Greg KH
2011-08-03  1:12                           ` Lucas De Marchi
2011-08-03  9:40                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-08-03 13:17                               ` Lucas De Marchi
2011-08-03 18:08                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-08-03 18:45                                   ` Lucas De Marchi
2011-08-04 18:57                                     ` Lucas De Marchi
2011-08-23 17:57                                       ` Greg KH
2011-08-26 21:06                                       ` Andrew Morton
2011-06-12 15:34               ` Eric W. Biederman
2011-06-13 14:28                 ` Kay Sievers
2011-06-02 14:16         ` Eric W. Biederman

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