Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758536AbWK0T3f (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:29:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758524AbWK0T3f (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:29:35 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:37848 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758529AbWK0T3e (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Nov 2006 14:29:34 -0500 Message-ID: <456B3B2D.9040302@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:23:25 -0800 From: Ulrich Drepper Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Evgeniy Polyakov CC: David Miller , Andrew Morton , netdev , Zach Brown , Christoph Hellwig , Chase Venters , Johann Borck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [take25 1/6] kevent: Description. References: <11641265982190@2ka.mipt.ru> <4564E2AB.1020202@redhat.com> <20061123115504.GB20294@2ka.mipt.ru> <4565FDED.2050003@redhat.com> <20061124114614.GA32545@2ka.mipt.ru> <45671E16.6060005@redhat.com> <20061124164916.GA4012@2ka.mipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <20061124164916.GA4012@2ka.mipt.ru> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1135 Lines: 28 Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > That index is provided by kernel for userspace so that userspace could > determine where indexes are - of course userspace can maintain it > itself, but it can also use provided by kernel. Indeed. That's what I said. But I also pointed out that the field is only useful in simple minded programs and certainly not in the wrappers the runtime (glibc) will provide. As you said yourself, there is no real need for the value being there, userland can keep track of it by itself. So, let's reduce the interface. > I do not care actually about that index, but as you have probably noticed, > there was such an interface already, and I changed it. So, this will be the > last change of the interface. You think it should not be exported - > fine, it will not be. Thanks. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ - 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/