Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:37:23 +1000 | | From | Nick Piggin <> | | Subject | Re: Why no XML in the Kernel? |
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James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> I have a requirement to pass information from the kernel to user space. > The information is passed fairly rarely, but over time extra parameters > are added. At the moment we just use a struct, but that means that the > kernel and the userspace app have to both keep in step. If something > like XML was used, we could implement new parameters in the kernel, and > the user space could just ignore them, until the user space is upgraded. > XML would initially seem a good idea for this, but are there any methods > currently used in the kernel that could handle these parameter changes > over time. > > For example, should the sysfs be used for this? > > Any comments? >
Yes use sysfs (or procfs if the information is related to a process). Using ASCII text representation, and a single value per file is noramlly the preferred method to do this I think.
Nick
-- SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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