Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264641AbTEQBOk (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 21:14:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264643AbTEQBOk (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 21:14:40 -0400 Received: from siaag1ac.compuserve.com ([149.174.40.5]:43489 "EHLO siaag1ac.compuserve.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264641AbTEQBOj (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 May 2003 21:14:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 21:23:25 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Subject: Re: 2.5.69-mm6 To: Alan Cox Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , ch@murgatroid.com, Andrew Morton Message-ID: <200305162126_MC3-1-3947-176E@compuserve.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 785 Lines: 22 Alan Cox wrote: > > I'd vote for treating this patch just like the futexes one, making sure that > > those who know *how* can turn epoll off, but leave it out of make config. > > > > Furthermore, I wonder if this patch is a large savings, the bulk of epoll is > > infrastructure, not the few syscalls. > > All of this stuff should be disablable and far more. It probably all > wants hiding under a single "Shrink feature set" type option most people > can skip over as they do with kernel debugging. What else should be disablable? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/