Re: [PATCH] [RFCv2] notify userspace about time changes

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 04:53:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Is sysfs the right interface for this thing?  Bear in mind that
> CONFIG_SYSFS does exist.  
> 
> > +		     fd = open("/sys/kernel/time_notify", O_WRONLY);
> > +		     fdprintf(fd, "%d 1 0 1 1", efd);
> 
> why not
> 
> 		sys_time_notify(efd, 1, 0, 1, 1);

Yeah, that would be much better than a sysfs file, this is abusing the
sysfs interface quite a lot.

thanks,

greg k-h
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