Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2993490AbXEBQjm (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 12:39:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2993508AbXEBQjm (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 12:39:42 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.229]:42307 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2993490AbXEBQjl (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 May 2007 12:39:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=PNpsgI/Y6BCZ1hJyQA4PgZQBdvfe1Uyh3ENFPw+GhPqRmhotygTBkwka1rUH+W2vnp23BlcTrPAykf7uSrRM6KAzeC8/IL7LZXTRN3taQ8uGy5CF2lSoRpt/gppJyMkW1q9oBkIHtKpmDRa0NsMQDiVKnwW6gO5uLi0Y6k2Jb4U= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 09:39:39 -0700 From: "Ulrich Drepper" To: "Eric Dumazet" Subject: Re: [patch 14/22] pollfs: pollable futex Cc: "Davi Arnaut" , "Andrew Morton" , "Davide Libenzi" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" In-Reply-To: <20070502104936.674a4b54.dada1@cosmosbay.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070502052235.914764000@haxent.com.br> <20070502053427.123392000@haxent.com.br> <20070502095503.a06f5472.dada1@cosmosbay.com> <20070502104936.674a4b54.dada1@cosmosbay.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 759 Lines: 13 On 5/2/07, Eric Dumazet wrote: > I understand your concerns, but *this* patch bundle extends poll()/select()/epoll, and is not an alternative to kevent or other work in progress, (and linux centered) It is adding huge amounts of complexity and at the same time is not future-safe. I consider this enough reason to reject this approach. You never can get rid of the interface. It's much cleaner and safer to do it right instead of piling on more and more workarounds for special situations. - 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/