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Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:58:43 -0500
To: "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@pathscale.com>
From: "Talpey, Thomas" <Thomas.Talpey@netapp.com>
Subject: Re: [openib-general] Re: Revenge of the sysfs maintainer! (was
  Re: [PATCH 8 of 20] ipath - sysfs support for core driver)
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At 11:58 PM 3/9/2006, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
>I'd like a mechanism that is (a) always there (b) easy for kernel to use
>and (c) easy for userspace to use.  A sysfs file satisfies a, b, and c,
>but I can't use it; a sysfs bin file satisfies all three (a bit worse on
>b), but I can't use it; debugfs isn't there, so I can't use it.
>
>That leaves me with few options, I think.  What do you suggest?  (Please
>don't say netlink.)

mmap()?

Tom.

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