Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754403AbYJUTvJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:51:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751281AbYJUTu4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:50:56 -0400 Received: from az33egw02.freescale.net ([192.88.158.103]:54563 "EHLO az33egw02.freescale.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750866AbYJUTu4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:50:56 -0400 Message-ID: <48FE30D8.6050705@freescale.com> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:43:20 -0500 From: Timur Tabi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Williams CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kumar Gala Subject: Re: Best method for sending messages to user space? References: <48FE1741.1000502@freescale.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 753 Lines: 23 Dan Williams wrote: > I really like the sysfs_notify() approach that Neil Brown has put > together for delivering md-raid events. Is there any documentation for sysfs_notify? It doesn't appear to do anything whenever I call it. > Now with 2.6.28 you will be > able do this from an atomic context with sysfs_notify_dirent() [1]. That sounds like something I could use. Kumar, can you update the repository I'm using to include sysfs_notify_dirent()? -- Timur Tabi Linux kernel developer at Freescale -- 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/