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Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:09:37 -0700 From: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@...nd.org>, lkml@...r.kernel.org, "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>, Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>, Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@...com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>, John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>, Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@...band.com>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFCv2] notify userspace about time changes On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 04:53:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Is sysfs the right interface for this thing? Bear in mind that > CONFIG_SYSFS does exist. > > > + fd = open("/sys/kernel/time_notify", O_WRONLY); > > + fdprintf(fd, "%d 1 0 1 1", efd); > > why not > > sys_time_notify(efd, 1, 0, 1, 1); Yeah, that would be much better than a sysfs file, this is abusing the sysfs interface quite a lot. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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