linux-kernel - Re: SYSFS: need a noncaching read

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Message-Id: <1189598380.6659.28.camel@Zeus.EmbLux>
Date:	Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:59:40 +0200
From:	Heiko Schocher <hs@...x.de>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Robert Schwebel <r.schwebel@...gutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Detlev Zundel <dzu@...x.de>
Subject: Re: SYSFS: need a noncaching read

Hello Greg,

Am Mittwoch, den 12.09.2007, 04:39 -0700 schrieb Greg KH:
> > > Do an lseek back to 0 and then re-read, you will get called in your
> > > driver again.
> > 
> > No thats not true. I thought this too, but if I make a:
> > 
> > seek (fd, 0L, SEEK_SET);
> > 
> > in Userspace, there is no retrigger in the sysFS, my driver is *not*
> > called again. So I made a own sysfs_seek function, which does retrigger
> > the driver ...
> 
> Hm, are you sure?  Otherwise the poll() stuff would not work at all.

Yes.
Sysfs uses generic_file_llseek (). And in sysfs_read_file ()
buffer->needs_read_fill must be 1, to reread from the driver.
generic_file_llseek () doesnt change this variable.

Best regards
Heiko
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