linux-kernel - Re: [rfc 3/7] procfs: Add ability to plugin auxiliary fdinfo providers

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Message-ID: <20120704075020.GC1999@moon>
Date:	Wed, 4 Jul 2012 11:50:20 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>
To:	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	James Bottomley <jbottomley@...allels.com>
Subject: Re: [rfc 3/7] procfs: Add ability to plugin auxiliary fdinfo
 providers

On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 11:39:30AM +0400, Pavel Emelyanov wrote:
> 
> How about introducing one more file_operations member and call it in the
> seq_show() (if exists)? Only inotify, eventfd and eventpoll will implement
> one. This will allow to avoid all this complexity with drivers.

Hmm. Thanks for idea, I need to estimate which impact it will have. Will ping
back once it's done.

	Cyrill
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