fsnotify & sysfs

Hello,

I know that a sysfs file may be pollable but I'm asking to myself how
it could be difficult adding notifying support also.

Maybe adding a call to the fsnotify subsystem within the
sysfs_notify() function as follow can do the trick?

diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index da3fefe..afee69f 100644
a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -484,8 +486,10 @@ void sysfs_notify(struct kobject *k, const char
*dir, const
sd = sysfs_find_dirent(sd, NULL, dir);
if (sd && attr)
sd = sysfs_find_dirent(sd, NULL, attr);
- if (sd)
+ if (sd) {
sysfs_notify_dirent(sd);
+ fsnotify_change(dentry, ATTR_SIZE);
+ }

mutex_unlock(&sysfs_mutex);
}

However my problem is how to get the struct dentry pointer needed by
fsnotify_change() related to the struct sysfs_dirent pointer passed to
sysfs_notify(). :(

Can you please give me any advice about to solve it?

Another question: in file linux/fs/sysfs/file.c I see:

#include <linux/fsnotify.h>

but none of its functions are called into file.c... maybe it's a
mistake?

Thanks in advance,

Rodolfo


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