Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262118AbUKPTe6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:34:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262116AbUKPTdt (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:33:49 -0500 Received: from mail.euroweb.hu ([193.226.220.4]:24039 "HELO mail.euroweb.hu") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262118AbUKPTa1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:30:27 -0500 To: greg@kroah.com CC: rcpt-linux-fsdevel.AT.vger.kernel.org@jankratochvil.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org In-reply-to: <20041116191643.GA10021@kroah.com> (message from Greg KH on Tue, 16 Nov 2004 11:16:43 -0800) Subject: Re: [PATCH] [Request for inclusion] Filesystem in Userspace References: <84144f0204111602136a9bbded@mail.gmail.com> <20041116120226.A27354@pauline.vellum.cz> <20041116163314.GA6264@kroah.com> <20041116170339.GD6264@kroah.com> <20041116175857.GA9213@kroah.com> <20041116191643.GA10021@kroah.com> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:30:21 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 816 Lines: 25 > Depends on what your /dev node is trying to do. What is is doing > anyway? Filesystem requests are passed to userspace and the reply is send back to the kernel. So it's definitely a character device or socket like thing. > Any ioctls? Any wierd, non-chardev like things? Nothing extraordinary. Messages are sent/received with plain read and write. > Again, inline code would have been nice to see so those of us who live > in our email clients could have reviewed it... Next time I'll try to split it up in managable parts, and send it inline. Thanks, Miklos - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/