Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:25:00 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [take12 0/3] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:13:40 -0700

> And how is the quality of the work to be judged if the work isn't
> commented, documented and explained, especially the userland-visible
> parts that *cannot* *ever* *be* *changed* *or* *removed* once they're in
> a stable kernel release?

Are you even willing to look at the collection of example applications
Evgeniy wrote against this API?

That is the true test of a set of interfaces, what happens when you
try to actually use them in real programs.

Everything else is fluff, including standards and "documentation".

He even bothered to benchmark things, and post assosciated graphs and
performance analysis during the course of development.
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