Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261775AbVCSUvX (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:51:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261776AbVCSUvX (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:51:23 -0500 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:13580 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261775AbVCSUvU (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:51:20 -0500 Message-ID: <423C9361.4050308@opersys.com> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 16:02:25 -0500 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com Organization: Opersys inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr, fr-be, fr-ca, fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: karim@opersys.com CC: Jan Engelhardt , Baruch Even , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tom Zanussi , Richard J Moore , Robert Wisniewski , Michel Dagenais Subject: Re: Relayfs question References: <423C78E8.3040200@ev-en.org> <423C913B.6000307@opersys.com> In-Reply-To: <423C913B.6000307@opersys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 905 Lines: 22 Karim Yaghmour wrote: > What relayfs does, and does very well, is move very large amounts of > data out of the kernel and make them available to user-space with very > little overhead. In the actual case of your tty logger, I've browsed > through the code briefly, and I think that with relayfs you should be > able to: Just to avoid any confusion, note that I'm referring mainly to rpldev.c, which is the kernel-side driver for the logger, I haven't looked at any of the user tools. Karim -- Author, Speaker, Developer, Consultant Pushing Embedded and Real-Time Linux Systems Beyond the Limits http://www.opersys.com || karim@opersys.com || 1-866-677-4546 - 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/