linux/lib
NeilBrown 4508a7a734 [PATCH] sysfs: Allow sysfs attribute files to be pollable
It works like this:
  Open the file
  Read all the contents.
  Call poll requesting POLLERR or POLLPRI (so select/exceptfds works)
  When poll returns,
     close the file and go to top of loop.
   or lseek to start of file and go back to the 'read'.

Events are signaled by an object manager calling
   sysfs_notify(kobj, dir, attr);

If the dir is non-NULL, it is used to find a subdirectory which
contains the attribute (presumably created by sysfs_create_group).

This has a cost of one int  per attribute, one wait_queuehead per kobject,
one int per open file.

The name "sysfs_notify" may be confused with the inotify
functionality.  Maybe it would be nice to support inotify for sysfs
attributes as well?

This patch also uses sysfs_notify to allow /sys/block/md*/md/sync_action
to be pollable

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-14 11:41:24 -07:00
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reed_solomon [PATCH] sem2mutex: kernel/ 2006-03-23 07:38:10 -08:00
zlib_deflate
zlib_inflate
.gitignore
bitmap.c [PATCH] bitops: hweight() related cleanup 2006-03-26 08:57:15 -08:00
bust_spinlocks.c
cmdline.c
cpumask.c [PATCH] cpumask: uninline any_online_cpu() 2006-03-25 08:23:00 -08:00
crc16.c
crc32.c
crc32defs.h
crc-ccitt.c
ctype.c
dec_and_lock.c
div64.c
dump_stack.c
errno.c
extable.c [PATCH] powerpc: trivial: modify comments to refer to new location of files 2006-02-10 16:53:51 +11:00
find_next_bit.c [PATCH] bitops: generic ext2_{set,clear,test,find_first_zero,find_next_zero}_bit() 2006-03-26 08:57:11 -08:00
gen_crc32table.c
genalloc.c
halfmd4.c
hweight.c [PATCH] bitops: hweight() speedup 2006-03-26 08:59:30 -08:00
idr.c
inflate.c
int_sqrt.c
iomap_copy.c [PATCH] iomap_copy fallout (m68k) 2006-02-18 16:30:40 -05:00
iomap.c
Kconfig
Kconfig.debug [PARISC] Remove obsolete CONFIG_DEBUG_IOREMAP 2006-03-30 17:48:50 +00:00
kernel_lock.c
klist.c
kobject_uevent.c [PATCH] kobject: fix build error if CONFIG_SYSFS=n 2006-03-20 13:42:57 -08:00
kobject.c [PATCH] sysfs: Allow sysfs attribute files to be pollable 2006-04-14 11:41:24 -07:00
kref.c [PATCH] kref: avoid an atomic operation in kref_put() 2006-03-20 13:42:57 -08:00
libcrc32c.c
Makefile [PATCH] bitops: generic hweight{64,32,16,8}() 2006-03-26 08:57:11 -08:00
parser.c
prio_tree.c
radix-tree.c [PATCH] radix-tree documentation cleanups 2006-03-25 08:22:59 -08:00
rbtree.c
rwsem-spinlock.c
rwsem.c
semaphore-sleepers.c
sha1.c
smp_processor_id.c
sort.c
spinlock_debug.c [PATCH] Fix spinlock debugging delays to not time out too early 2006-02-07 16:12:33 -08:00
string.c [PATCH] Silence a const vs non-const warning 2006-04-11 06:18:42 -07:00
swiotlb.c BUG_ON() Conversion in lib/swiotlb.c 2006-03-24 18:47:11 +01:00
textsearch.c
ts_bm.c
ts_fsm.c
ts_kmp.c
vsprintf.c