Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753535Ab0FJFLO (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:11:14 -0400 Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:33466 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751797Ab0FJFLM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:11:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:10:55 +1000 From: Neil Brown To: Arve =?UTF-8?B?SGrDuG5uZXbDpWc=?= Cc: david@lang.hm, Alan Stern , tytso@mit.edu, Alan Cox , Florian Mickler , Peter Zijlstra , Brian Swetland , "H. Peter Anvin" , LKML , James Bottomley , Linux PM , Thomas Gleixner , Linux OMAP Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , Felipe Balbi , Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: [linux-pm] suspend blockers & Android integration Message-ID: <20100610151055.5a0870ba@notabene.brown> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 807 Lines: 25 On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 21:51:38 -0700 Arve Hjønnevåg wrote: > The current user space interface does not require that clients > register the file descriptors that they get wakeup events from with > another process. > However I believe they *do* register these file descriptors with the kernel, via some sort of ioctl (I think you have said that is the case for input devices at least). Can you confirm that? If that is the case, is it really such a big change to register with another process instead of with the kernel? Thanks, NeilBrown -- 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/