Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756630Ab1FHW1C (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2011 18:27:02 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:41282 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753937Ab1FHW07 (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2011 18:26:59 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 15:17:32 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Kay Sievers Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Lucas De Marchi , Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nick Piggin , Al Viro , Christoph Hellwig , Stephen Rothwell , David Howells , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Daniel Lezcano , Jiri Slaby , Greg Kroah-Hartman , James Morris Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: add support for poll() Message-Id: <20110608151732.2b321b9a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <1306930476-1899-1-git-send-email-lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> <20110602134338.0c56160e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.2 (GTK+ 2.20.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 725 Lines: 19 On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 19:32:49 +0200 Kay Sievers wrote: > > Nacked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" > > Acked-By: Kay Sievers The patch itself doesn't look too bad to me... We already have several pollable procfs files, such as fs/proc/base.c:mounts_poll() and I think drivers/md has one. I do think that any work in this area should end up with those custom make-procfs-pollable hacks being identified and removed. -- 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/