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Message-Id: <20061011142941.3c599e16.zaitcev@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:29:41 -0700
From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@...hat.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>, <gregkh@...e.de>,
Paolo Abeni <paolo.abeni@...il.it>,
<linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbmon: add binary interface
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:51:09 -0400 (EDT), Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Would relayfs be a better choice than debugfs for exporting potentially
> large quantities of binary data?
I'm sick of mounting them, so for the binary API I was going to
create a bunch of character devices with a dynamic major.
With udev, I do not even need to read /proc/devices myself.
Curiously enough, Marcel Holtmann argued for a device because he
did NOT want to run udev. Funny how that works.
-- Pete
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