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Message-Id: <20110608151732.2b321b9a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 15:17:32 -0700 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>, Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>, Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...e.fr>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: add support for poll() On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 19:32:49 +0200 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> wrote: > > Nacked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com> > > Acked-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> The patch itself doesn't look too bad to me... We already have several pollable procfs files, such as fs/proc/base.c:mounts_poll() and I think drivers/md has one. I do think that any work in this area should end up with those custom make-procfs-pollable hacks being identified and removed. -- 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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