Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:16:47 +0300
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
       netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
       Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>,
       Johann Borck <johann.borck@densedata.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>, Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [take24 0/6] kevent: Generic event handling mechanism.
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On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 01:54:58PM +0300, Evgeniy Polyakov (johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru) wrote:
> > ===================
> > 
> > - there is really no reason to invent yet another timer implementation.
> >   We have the POSIX timers which are feature rich and nicely
> >   implemented.  All that is needed is to implement SIGEV_KEVENT as a
> >   notification mechanism.  The timer is registered as part of the
> >   timer_create() syscalls.
> 
> Feel free to add any interface you like - it is as simple as call for
> kevent_user_add_ukevent() in userspace.

... in kernelspace I mean.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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