Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262385AbVD2EXr (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:23:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262387AbVD2EXr (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:23:47 -0400 Received: from smtp.istop.com ([66.11.167.126]:23242 "EHLO smtp.istop.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262385AbVD2EXa (ORCPT ); Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:23:30 -0400 From: Daniel Phillips To: David Teigland Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] dlm: overview Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 00:24:07 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 Cc: Lars Marowsky-Bree , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050425151136.GA6826@redhat.com> <20050427135635.GA4431@marowsky-bree.de> <20050428162552.GH10628@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20050428162552.GH10628@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504290024.08076.phillips@istop.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 911 Lines: 22 On Thursday 28 April 2005 12:25, David Teigland wrote: > There's a dlm daemon in user space that works with the specific sysfs > files above and interfaces with whatever cluster infrastructure exists. > The same goes for gfs, but the gfs user space daemon does quite a lot more > (gfs-specific stuff). > > In other words, these aren't external API's; they're internal interfaces > within systems that happen to be split between the kernel and user-space. Traditionally, Linux kernel interfaces have been well-defined. I do not think we want to break with that tradition now. So please provide a pointer to the kernel interface you have in mind. Regards, Daniel - 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/