Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261916AbVDGHr1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 03:47:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261997AbVDGHr0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 03:47:26 -0400 Received: from dea.vocord.ru ([217.67.177.50]:19127 "EHLO vocord.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261916AbVDGHrF (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Apr 2005 03:47:05 -0400 Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: connector is missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1] From: Evgeniy Polyakov Reply-To: johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru To: Guillaume Thouvenin Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <1112859412.18360.31.camel@frecb000711.frec.bull.fr> References: <1112859412.18360.31.camel@frecb000711.frec.bull.fr> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-00y2qTYuy9bKBTN3YUhE" Organization: MIPT Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:53:39 +0400 Message-Id: <1112860419.28858.76.camel@uganda> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 (2.0.4-2) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.4 (vocord.com [192.168.0.1]); Thu, 07 Apr 2005 11:46:49 +0400 (MSD) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2529 Lines: 81 --=-00y2qTYuy9bKBTN3YUhE Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 09:36 +0200, Guillaume Thouvenin wrote: > Hi Evgeniy, >=20 > I forgot to put you in the CC of the email so I'm forwarding a post > about the connector sent on lkml. Ok, I'm in. > Best regards, > Guillaume > email message attachment, "Forwarded message - Re: connector is > missing in 2.6.12-rc2-mm1" > On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 09:36 +0200, Guillaume Thouvenin wrote: > > Guillaume Thouvenin wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > >=20 > > > I don't see the connector directory in the 2.6.12-rc2-mm1 tree. So i= t > > > seems that you removed the connector? > >=20 > > Greg dropped it for some reason. I think that's best because it needed= a > > significant amount of rework. I'd like to see it resubitted in totalit= y so > > we can take another look at it. Hmm, what exactly do you think _must_ be changed? Most of your comments are addressed in 4 patches I sent to you and Greg. Others [mostly atomic allocation] are API extensions and will be added. There also not included flush on callback removal. > > It's a new piece of core kernel infrastructure and the barriers for tha= t > > are necessarily high. > >=20 > > > Will you include it again in futur > > > release? At the same time, will you include the fork connector? > >=20 > > I could put the fork connector into -mm, but would like to be convinced > > that it's acceptable to and useful for all system accounting requiremen= ts, > > not just the one project. That means code, please. SuperIO and kobject_uevent are also dropped as far as I can see. Acrypto is being reviewed but it also depends on it, although=20 it takes to much time, probably will be dropped too. Proper w1 notification also requires connector. --=20 Evgeniy Polyakov Crash is better than data corruption -- Arthur Grabowski --=-00y2qTYuy9bKBTN3YUhE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBCVOcDIKTPhE+8wY0RAqOcAJ9tvF1v+oF9xgan33MAzqsMLDqzIgCbBXoN 4IVpktRLQ1sMaTEqrcHPipA= =XEpb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-00y2qTYuy9bKBTN3YUhE-- - 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/