Re: New patch for bdflush and syslog

From: Chris Wright (chrisat_private)
Date: Thu Aug 30 2001 - 15:02:04 PDT

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    * Wayne Salamon (wsalamonat_private) wrote:
    > 
    >   Attached is a patch to add hooks for bdflush and syslog.
    > 
    >   The bdflush hook allows control of commands to the bdflush daemon for
    > reading and writing of the bdflush control settings.
    
    the bdflush hook can be getting a userspace pointer ('long data' is
    a pointer for some values of 'int func').  it seems like we should
    at least note this, since we prefer giving the module kernel space
    pointers.
    
    > The syslog hook was placed in do_syslog in order to control syslog system
    > calls and /proc/kmsg access to the system log.
    
    this part looks fine to me.
    
    -chris
    
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