On 4/5/06, Al Viro <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 11:43:15AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > How about _NOT_ using sysfs and just having ->read()/->write() on a file in fs > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Where does this file come from? A device node? > > > of your own? ~20 lines for all of it, not counting #include... > > > > Sysfs attributes allow full read/write on their file handles. But > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > GregKH has been discouraging that. > -- Jon Smirl [email protected] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] 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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