Re: [PATCH] sysctl: add support for poll()

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 03:57:18PM -0300, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> Adding support for poll() in sysctl fs allows userspace to receive
> notifications of changes in sysctl entries. This adds a infrastructure
> to allow files in sysctl fs to be pollable and implements it for
> hostname and domainname.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
> ---
>  fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c   |   45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/sysctl.h  |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/utsname.h |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/sys.c            |    2 ++
>  kernel/utsname_sysctl.c |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Who is going to take this through their tree?

I can through the driver-core tree if no one else objects.

Any objections?

thanks,

greg k-h