Subject: Re: [patch] inotify for 2.6.11-mm1, updated
From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 04:40 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Why do you need the classdevice?  I'm really not too eager about adding
> tons of new misdevices now that we can route directly to individual majors
> with cdev_add & stuff.  Especially when you're actually relying on class
> device you should have your own one instead of relying on an onsolete
> layer.

We have sysfs knobs and /sys/class/misc/inotify makes sense.

> Actually, you fixed that in read_write.c, just compat.c is still missing.
> Looks like you forget to fix that one and didn't have a chance to compile-test
> the 32bit compat layer?

Yah, I just missed it.  It is fixed in my tree.

Thanks,

	Robert Love


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