Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 22:37:03 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>, Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>,
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       ioe-lkml@rameria.de, joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390: Hypervisor File System
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On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 07:23:41AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> If the count of values handled in a transaction is not to high and it
> makes sense to group these values logically, why not just create an
> attribute group for every transaction, which creates dummy attributes
> to fill the values in, and use an "action" file in that group, that
> commits all the values at once to whatever target? That should fit into
> the ioctl use pattern, right?

That's what configfs can handle easier.  I think the issue is getting
stuff from the kernel in one atomic snapshot (all the different file
values from the same point in time.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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