Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030385AbWJDGKy (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 02:10:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030381AbWJDGKy (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 02:10:54 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.175]:29987 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030385AbWJDGKx (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Oct 2006 02:10:53 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=GcfkJGWOAX5dvzqfB56POHjIRUiryIpxGTn0EiYo1Z3s7Ll3owCN3ORB7KZZDK8Na4LshIxAkIlyAX1Fm4N+SCTlxn5pSHffMwU6l/rRIYXmMtwsPweHRw5AQN2hzFpfww7CknTbvTECh9TmlTls89+GhdPcOufGzZQUDgoDbsg= Message-ID: Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 23:10:51 -0700 From: "Ulrich Drepper" To: "Evgeniy Polyakov" Subject: Re: [take19 0/4] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism. Cc: "Andrew Morton" , lkml , "David Miller" , "Ulrich Drepper" , netdev , "Zach Brown" , "Christoph Hellwig" , "Chase Venters" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <115a6230591036@2ka.mipt.ru> <11587449471424@2ka.mipt.ru> <20060922122207.3b716028.akpm@osdl.org> <20060923042350.GA24099@2ka.mipt.ru> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 840 Lines: 17 [Bah, sent too eaqrly] On 9/22/06, Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > The only two things missed in patchset after his suggestions are > new POSIX-like interface, which I personally consider as very unconvenient, This means you really do not know at all what this is about. We already have these interfaces. Several of them and there will likely be more. These are interfaces for functionality which needs the new event notification. There is *NO* reason whatsoever to not make add this extension and instead invent new interfaces to have notification sent to the event queue. - 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/