Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760033AbXKNLxT (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:53:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759192AbXKNLxA (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:53:00 -0500 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:49961 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755082AbXKNLw7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:52:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:52:55 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <20071114.035255.91843147.davem@davemloft.net> To: paulus@samba.org Cc: hch@infradead.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, gregkh@suse.de, mucci@cs.utk.edu, eranian@hpl.hp.com, wcohen@redhat.com, robert.richter@amd.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, andi@firstfloor.org Subject: Re: [perfmon] Re: [perfmon2] perfmon2 merge news From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <18234.56940.229831.735533@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <18234.53558.883970.87414@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20071114110009.GA17833@infradead.org> <18234.56940.229831.735533@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 5.2 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) 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: 494 Lines: 12 From: Paul Mackerras Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:39:24 +1100 > No it's not basically a read(). It's more like a request/reply > interface, which a read()/write() interface doesn't handle very well. Yes it can, see my other reply. - 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/