linux-kernel - Re: [ofa-general] Re: [GIT PULL] please pull ummunotify

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Date:	Fri, 2 Oct 2009 22:45:28 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>,
	general@...ts.openfabrics.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [GIT PULL] please pull ummunotify

Hi!

> In the end this seems to just take the ummunotify code I have, and make
> it be a new type of perf counter instead of a character special device.
> I'd actually be OK with that, since having an oddball new char dev
> interface is not particularly nice.  But on the other hand just
> multiplexing a new type of thing under perf events is not all that much
> better.  What do you think?

I really hate the strange character device. So if you can hide it in
tracing infrastructure, I'd certainly like that.
								Pavel
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