Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030224AbWECPy3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 11:54:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030225AbWECPy3 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 11:54:29 -0400 Received: from turing-police.cc.vt.edu ([128.173.14.107]:49628 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030224AbWECPy2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 11:54:28 -0400 Message-Id: <200605031554.k43Fs3gg008022@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.1-RC3 To: Michael Holzheu Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn_Engel?= , akpm@osdl.org, Greg KH , ioe-lkml@rameria.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kyle Moffett , mschwid2@de.ibm.com, Pekka J Enberg Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390: Hypervisor File System In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 03 May 2006 15:18:41 +0200." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1146671642_2627P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 11:54:03 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1185 Lines: 35 --==_Exmh_1146671642_2627P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 03 May 2006 15:18:41 +0200, Michael Holzheu said: > Of course=21 But the convention must be, that If userspace wants to > access the data, it has to use our standard linux > parser. If it accesses the data directly, this is broken. Yet another case of Eternal Optimism flying in the face of Reality... ;) a) you can't *force* the use of your parser. b) this creates a userspace dependency that can get messy if the parser i= s buggy or requires modification to deal with a kernel change. --==_Exmh_1146671642_2627P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQFEWNIacC3lWbTT17ARAtHQAKDy56ZK1dRyA+BKwCMpSreGuTNpxQCfQUq6 l1OOFJSLZDKb0dFayr/O5KI= =G0rh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1146671642_2627P-- - 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/