Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161504AbWJKVb6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:31:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161527AbWJKVb5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:31:57 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:1695 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161513AbWJKVbr (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:31:47 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:29:41 -0700 From: Pete Zaitcev To: Alan Stern Cc: Pavel Machek , , Paolo Abeni , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbmon: add binary interface Message-Id: <20061011142941.3c599e16.zaitcev@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20061011134351.0c79445a.zaitcev@redhat.com> Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.10.4; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 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: 748 Lines: 18 On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:51:09 -0400 (EDT), Alan Stern wrote: > Would relayfs be a better choice than debugfs for exporting potentially > large quantities of binary data? I'm sick of mounting them, so for the binary API I was going to create a bunch of character devices with a dynamic major. With udev, I do not even need to read /proc/devices myself. Curiously enough, Marcel Holtmann argued for a device because he did NOT want to run udev. Funny how that works. -- Pete - 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/