linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sysctl: add support for poll()

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Date:	Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:57:52 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	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>, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	neilb@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: add support for poll()

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 03:57:18PM -0300, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> Adding support for poll() in sysctl fs allows userspace to receive
> notifications of changes in sysctl entries. This adds a infrastructure
> to allow files in sysctl fs to be pollable and implements it for
> hostname and domainname.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi>
> ---
>  fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c   |   45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/sysctl.h  |   22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/utsname.h |   16 ++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/sys.c            |    2 ++
>  kernel/utsname_sysctl.c |   23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 108 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Who is going to take this through their tree?

I can through the driver-core tree if no one else objects.

Any objections?

thanks,

greg k-h
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