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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] eventfd: simplify signal helpers
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On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 09:05:21AM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:

> I have no skin in the game aside from having to drop this conversion
> which I'm fine to do if there are actually users for this btu really,
> that looks a lot like abusing an api that really wasn't designed for
> this.

Yeah, I think so too. The ACPI thing should use its own FD if it wants
to feed actual data..

Jason