Re: [PATCH 0/5] relay: Migrate from relayfs to a generic relay API.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Sun Feb 19 2006 - 17:27:50 EST


On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:17:24PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 05:13:30PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:08:40PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> > > > What about the userspace visible API for things already using relayfs,
> > > There's no existing in-tree user of relayfs.
> >
> > wtf ? since when has userspace been 'in-tree' ?
>
> relayfs is a kernel component. to create any user-visible thing in relayfs
> some kernel components needs to use it. no single kernel component does
> currently

systemtap uses kprobes to export data through relayfs.

Dave

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