Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761375AbXKNXCn (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:02:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754153AbXKNXCf (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:02:35 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:33091 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754123AbXKNXCf (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:02:35 -0500 Message-ID: <473B7D07.6030901@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 17:56:07 -0500 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin CC: Paul Mackerras , David Miller , 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 References: <20071114.031216.11725447.davem@davemloft.net> <200711141125.18568.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> <18235.26873.437786.651828@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <200711142117.56352.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200711142117.56352.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 533 Lines: 15 On 11/14/2007 05:17 AM, Nick Piggin wrote: > > But in general, for special files, I guess the response is usually > some structured data (that is not visible at the syscall layer). > So I don't see a big problem to have a similarly arbitrarily > structured request. > > IOW, an ioctl. - 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/