Re: [PATCH] usbmon: add binary interface

[Pete Zaitcev]

On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:51:09 -0400 (EDT), Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Would relayfs be a better choice than debugfs for exporting potentially
> large quantities of binary data?

I'm sick of mounting them, so for the binary API I was going to
create a bunch of character devices with a dynamic major.
With udev, I do not even need to read /proc/devices myself.

Curiously enough, Marcel Holtmann argued for a device because he
did NOT want to run udev. Funny how that works.

-- Pete
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