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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> | 2008-07-27 12:25:57 -0300 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> | 2008-07-27 12:25:57 -0300 |
| commit | 50cb993ea6cd187bfed085cb3e0747066edeb02f (patch) | |
| tree | 61edac62c6c5bc07c59e4369c50c6821ad77f2c0 /Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt | |
| parent | 445c2714cf72817ab1ad3ca894c6d9b2047b3a3e (diff) | |
| parent | 8be1a6d6c77ab4532e4476fdb8177030ef48b52c (diff) | |
Merge ../linux-2.6
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt index 094f2d2f38b..510b722667a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/relay.txt @@ -294,6 +294,16 @@ user-defined data with a channel, and is immediately available (including in create_buf_file()) via chan->private_data or buf->chan->private_data. +Buffer-only channels +-------------------- + +These channels have no files associated and can be created with +relay_open(NULL, NULL, ...). Such channels are useful in scenarios such +as when doing early tracing in the kernel, before the VFS is up. In these +cases, one may open a buffer-only channel and then call +relay_late_setup_files() when the kernel is ready to handle files, +to expose the buffered data to the userspace. + Channel 'modes' --------------- |