linux-kernel - Re: Best method for sending messages to user space?

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Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:43:20 -0500
From:	Timur Tabi <timur@...escale.com>
To:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@...escale.com>
Subject: Re: Best method for sending messages to user space?

Dan Williams wrote:

> I really like the sysfs_notify() approach that Neil Brown has put
> together for delivering md-raid events.

Is there any documentation for sysfs_notify?  It doesn't appear to do anything
whenever I call it.

>  Now with 2.6.28 you will be
> able do this from an atomic context with sysfs_notify_dirent() [1].

That sounds like something I could use.

Kumar, can you update the repository I'm using to include sysfs_notify_dirent()?

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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