Messages in this thread | | | From | Nigel Cunningham <> | Subject | Re: [Suspend2][ 0/9] Extents support. | Date | Tue, 27 Jun 2006 19:08:46 +1000 |
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Hi.
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 17:53, Greg KH wrote: > Well, as your stuff does not have anything to do with "processes", > putting it in /proc is not acceptable. > > sysfs is one value per file, and if that matches up to what you need, > then it should be fine to use.
It does.
> You do need to have some kind of function for every sysfs entry, but you > can group common ones together (as the hwmon drivers do.)
Ok. I'll take a look.
> As you will not have a backing "device" to attach your files to, you > will probably need to deal with "raw" kobjects, and the learning curve > for how to create files in sysfs with them is unfortunatly a bit steep. > But there is lots of working examples in the kernel that do this (block > devices, md, driver core, etc.), there's plenty of code to copy from to > get it to work. > > And if that doesn't look like fun, you can always just use create a new > filesystem (only 200 lines of code), or use debugfs. > > good luck,
Ok. I'll give it a go. Thanks for the pointers, Greg.
Regards,
Nigel -- See http://www.suspend2.net for Howtos, FAQs, mailing lists, wiki and bugzilla info. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |