On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 09:09:37 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 04:53:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Is sysfs the right interface for this thing?  Bear in mind that
> > CONFIG_SYSFS does exist.  
> > 
> > > +		     fd = open("/sys/kernel/time_notify", O_WRONLY);
> > > +		     fdprintf(fd, "%d 1 0 1 1", efd);
> > 
> > why not
> > 
> > 		sys_time_notify(efd, 1, 0, 1, 1);
> 
> Yeah, that would be much better than a sysfs file, this is abusing the
> sysfs interface quite a lot.

Hm, ok. I used to think that adding new syscalls was discouraged, though.

Regards,
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Alex
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