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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: Best method for sending messages to user space?
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:43:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48FE30D8.6050705@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9c3a7c20810211114w5be330d3h35f859b4ea8f8af7@mail.gmail.com>

Dan Williams wrote:

> I really like the sysfs_notify() approach that Neil Brown has put
> together for delivering md-raid events.

Is there any documentation for sysfs_notify?  It doesn't appear to do anything
whenever I call it.

>  Now with 2.6.28 you will be
> able do this from an atomic context with sysfs_notify_dirent() [1].

That sounds like something I could use.

Kumar, can you update the repository I'm using to include sysfs_notify_dirent()?

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-21 19:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-21 17:54 Best method for sending messages to user space? Timur Tabi
2008-10-21 18:14 ` Dan Williams
2008-10-21 19:43   ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2008-10-21 20:16     ` Dan Williams
2008-10-21 20:23       ` Timur Tabi
2008-10-21 20:42         ` Dan Williams

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