Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:17:10 +0400 | From | Evgeniy Polyakov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kevent_user: remove non-chardev interface |
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On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:54:59PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org) wrote: > Currently a user can create a user kevents in two ways: > > a) simply open() the kevent chardevice > b) use sys_kevent_ctl with the KEVENT_CTL_INIT cmd type > > both are equally easy to use for the user, but to support type b) a lot > of code in kernelspace is required. remove type b to save lots of code > without functionality loss.
I personally do not have objections against it, but it introduces additional complexies - one needs to open /dev/kevent and then perform syscalls on top of returuned file descriptor.
If there are no objections, I will apply this patch.
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