Re: [PATCH] s390: Hypervisor File System

[Kay Sievers]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 02:28:45PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 01:46:03PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:37:03PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 07:23:41AM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > > > If the count of values handled in a transaction is not to high and it
> > > > makes sense to group these values logically, why not just create an
> > > > attribute group for every transaction, which creates dummy attributes
> > > > to fill the values in, and use an "action" file in that group, that
> > > > commits all the values at once to whatever target? That should fit into
> > > > the ioctl use pattern, right?
> > > 
> > > That's what configfs can handle easier.  I think the issue is getting
> > > stuff from the kernel in one atomic snapshot (all the different file
> > > values from the same point in time.)
> > 
> > Sure, but just like an ioctl, the kernel could return the values after
> > writing to the "action" file in the dummy attributes. That would be
> > something like a snapshot, right?
> 
> Yes, but where would the buffer be to return the data to on a write?  In
> the data that the user passed to write?

In the "dummy attribute", allocated by the device instance.

Kay
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