Re: [PATCH 1/4] relayfs: add support for non-relay files

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu Nov 10 2005 - 04:02:26 EST


On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 03:50:06PM -0600, Tom Zanussi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently, the relayfs API only supports the creation of directories
> (relayfs_create_dir()) and relay files (relay_open()). This patch
> adds support for non-relay files (relayfs_create_file()).
>
> This is so relayfs applications can create 'control files' in relayfs
> itself rather than in /proc or via a netlink channel, as is currently
> done in the relay-app examples. There were several comments that the
> use of netlink in the example code was non-intuitive and in fact the
> whole relay-app business was needlessly confusing. Based on that
> feedback, the example code has been completely converted over to
> relayfs control files as supported by this patch, and have also been
> made completely self-contained. The converted examples can be found
> here:

NACK. please do one thing at a time in relayfs instead of adding everthing
and a kitchen sink.

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