linux-kernel - Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news

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Message-ID: <473B7D07.6030901@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:56:07 -0500
From:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
CC:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, hch@...radead.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, gregkh@...e.de, mucci@...utk.edu,
	eranian@....hp.com, wcohen@...hat.com, robert.richter@....com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, andi@...stfloor.org
Subject: Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news

On 11/14/2007 05:17 AM, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
> But in general, for special files, I guess the response is usually
> some structured data (that is not visible at the syscall layer).
> So I don't see a big problem to have a similarly arbitrarily
> structured request.
> 
> 

IOW, an ioctl.
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