[PATCH] inotify (1/5): split kernel API from userspace support
The following series of patches introduces a kernel API for inotify,
making it possible for kernel modules to benefit from inotify's
mechanism for watching inodes. With these patches, inotify will
maintain for each caller a list of watches (via an embedded struct
inotify_watch), where each inotify_watch is associated with a
corresponding struct inode. The caller registers an event handler and
specifies for which filesystem events their event handler should be
called per inotify_watch.
Signed-off-by: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
Acked-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Acked-by: John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
index f9b5842..74f11a2 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig
+++ b/fs/Kconfig
@@ -393,18 +393,30 @@
bool "Inotify file change notification support"
default y
---help---
- Say Y here to enable inotify support and the associated system
- calls. Inotify is a file change notification system and a
- replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes numerous shortcomings in
- dnotify and introduces several new features. It allows monitoring
- of both files and directories via a single open fd. Other features
- include multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount
+ Say Y here to enable inotify support. Inotify is a file change
+ notification system and a replacement for dnotify. Inotify fixes
+ numerous shortcomings in dnotify and introduces several new features
+ including multiple file events, one-shot support, and unmount
notification.
For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
If unsure, say Y.
+config INOTIFY_USER
+ bool "Inotify support for userspace"
+ depends on INOTIFY
+ default y
+ ---help---
+ Say Y here to enable inotify support for userspace, including the
+ associated system calls. Inotify allows monitoring of both files and
+ directories via a single open fd. Events are read from the file
+ descriptor, which is also select()- and poll()-able.
+
+ For more information, see Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt
+
+ If unsure, say Y.
+
config QUOTA
bool "Quota support"
help