Christoph Hellwig writes:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:50:06PM -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Currently, the relayfs API only supports the creation of directories
> > (relayfs_create_dir()) and relay files (relay_open()). This patch
> > adds support for non-relay files (relayfs_create_file()).
> >
> > This is so relayfs applications can create 'control files' in relayfs
> > itself rather than in /proc or via a netlink channel, as is currently
> > done in the relay-app examples. There were several comments that the
> > use of netlink in the example code was non-intuitive and in fact the
> > whole relay-app business was needlessly confusing. Based on that
> > feedback, the example code has been completely converted over to
> > relayfs control files as supported by this patch, and have also been
> > made completely self-contained. The converted examples can be found
> > here:
>
> NACK. please do one thing at a time in relayfs instead of adding everthing
> and a kitchen sink.
>
OK, sure. This isn't a huge patch and everything in it is related to
one logical change, the other one contains a couple of changes and
some cleanup and could easily be broken out, anyway I'll break
everything up into smaller pieces and resubmit.
Tom
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