Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:37:55 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
       Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>,
       Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
       Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>, Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>,
       Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>,
       "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
       Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>,
       Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>,
       Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>,
       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 00/11] ANNOUNCE: "Syslets", generic asynchronous system call support
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Hi!
  
> The boring details:
> 
> Syslets consist of 'syslet atoms', where each atom represents a single 
> system-call. These atoms can be chained to each other: serially, in 
> branches or in loops. The return value of an executed atom is checked 
> against the condition flags. So an atom can specify 'exit on nonzero' or 
> 'loop until non-negative' kind of constructs.

Ouch, yet another interpretter in kernel :-(. Can we reuse acpi or
something?

									Pavel
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