Note that Pat isn't the sysfs maintainer anymore :)
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 07:17:48PM +0200, Paul Mundt wrote:
> Now with relayfs integrated and the relay_file_operations exported for
> use by other file systems, I wonder what people think about adding in a
> sysfs attribute for setting up channel buffers.
>
> The conventional relayfs doesn't make a lot of sense for the use cases
> where there are multiple devices to stream data from, particularly if
> they're already mapped out through the driver model. Rather than
> duplicating device enumeration, simply adding this as an attribute seems
> to work reasonably well.
>
> Tom did some work on the rchan_callbacks for more easily implementing
> relay files in other file systems, and it would be nice to use this in a
> non-debug context, without duplicating device enumeration in multiple
> locations.
Looks good, I like it. This properly handles the module owner stuff,
too, right?
And I agree with Christoph, with this change, you don't need a separate
relayfs mount anymore.
thanks,
greg k-h
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